Re: [PATCH 7/7] venet: add scatter-gather/GSO support

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Mon Aug 03 2009 - 14:32:37 EST


On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:18:07 -0400
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> SG/GSO significantly enhance the performance of network traffic under
> certain circumstances. We implement this feature as a separate patch
> to avoid intially complicating the baseline venet driver. This will
> presumably make the review process slightly easier, since we can
> focus on the basic interface first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>

Never mind, previous comment about adding TSO. But it still would
be good to have ethtool interface for this.

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