Re: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 23:45:47 EST


From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:42:20 -0700

> On the other hand I'm not sure how useful such a netdevice would be --
> will non-sendfile() paths generate big packets even if the MTU is 64KB?

non-sendfile() paths will generate big packets just fine, as long
as the application is providing that much data.
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