Re: [PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Add SW LRO support

From: Steve Wise
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 09:17:51 EST


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 05:13 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:44:23PM -0800, divy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Divy Le Ray <divy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add all-in-sw lro support.
>
> Doing this in a LLDD doesn't sound like a good idea. Have you
> tried doing this in the core networking code instead?

It looks like both Netxen and Neterion drivers already have this. So I
think for now the LLDD implements LRO. The stack supports it by virtue
of allowing fragmented skbs that are bigger than the MTU.

Other drivers implementing LRO:

drivers/net/s2io.c
drivers/net/netxen/

Steve.

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