On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:25:35 -0700 "Olivier Crameri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Same thing but with the patch this time. > > Sorry about that, > Olivier Crameri > > On 9/29/06, Olivier Crameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after running some experiments, we realised that using VLAN support in > > Linux caused some overhead. It turned out to be that the offloading > > features of our NIC (tso, sg, checksum offloading) were not beeing > > used. > > > > After digging a little bit in the code, we realised that the VLAN code > > did not set the features parameter of the net_device structure for the > > virtual interface. Attached is a patch with a suggested solution to > > this problem. > > > > Please let us know if this is an acceptable patch. > > > > Thanks, > > Olivier Crameri, HP Labs > > Patch needs to include "Developer's Certificate of Origin" see Documentation/SubmittingPatches section 11. Patch should not be sent as an attachment (if at all possible). Skip the marque comment. It is standard practice now to use the revision control system change log for attribution. Please handle all the current offload features including GSO. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
