Re: Offloading features in VLAN interfaces

2006-10-05 Thread Ben Greear
Olivier Crameri wrote: Same thing but with the patch this time. Since the VLAN device's features may also change in the handler, shouldn't we check and generate a feature-change event for the VLAN device(s) as well? Ben -- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.

Re: Offloading features in VLAN interfaces

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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 VLA

Offloading features in VLAN interfaces

2006-09-29 Thread Olivier Crameri
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 s

Re: Offloading features in VLAN interfaces

2006-09-29 Thread Olivier Crameri
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 (