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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire•com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:02:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAF906B.4040608@Voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090914150313.GA18560@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> TSO is not a problem because we provide a software fallback when
> the hardware does not support it.  So guests should always enable
> TSO if they support it and not worry about the physical NIC.

Yes, I am aware that GSO can take action and so software segmentation is / can be done when the HW isn't capable of doing so (and I assume the same can go for checksum). I assume that by "we provide" you mean the core networking code, correct? in what level? I assume its not the TCP one, since this is not applicable a tun/bridge scheme. Simper example would be the vm nic MTU... with vhost attached directly to a nic with packet socket you can learn/control it all, where when tun/bridge is used, how can you tell?

Or.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-10 12:59 [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-10 13:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-10 13:27   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11  4:17 ` Paul Moore
2009-09-11  4:59   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11  5:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11  6:10       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-11  9:44         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14  8:01       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14  8:07 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14  8:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14  8:17     ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14  9:11       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14  9:43         ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 10:10           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14 14:06             ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 15:03               ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-15 13:02                 ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2009-09-15 13:31                   ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-14 15:40               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-15 13:11                 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-15 13:18                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-02 17:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-03 15:10   ` Herbert Xu

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