> On 21 Jan 2015, at 23:49, Brad Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 01/21/15 06:51, Jim Smith wrote:
>> hi all,
>> 
>> the below diff enables support for jumbo frames on
>> some newer re(4) devices. i've tested it on 8186D/8111D
>> and 8186E/8111E chips, which are both able to do 9k
>> jumbos. it seems to provide a significant speed-up on
>> simple file transfer tests. most of the important parts
>> were taken from the freebsd re(4) driver.
>> 
>> feedback welcome, hope this helps someone.
> 
> I had started looking into adding support for jumbos to re(4)
> but what I have so far does not work; no crashing but the
> interface does not receive any packets. What you posted still
> needs some work. I'll see if I can get back to it soon-ish but
> I have put it aside as it was not intended to be a priority for
> the next release.

thats not very constructive feedback, especially if you dont have to time to 
tweak the code.

if you could explain what needs work, maybe jim could have a go at it. he's 
already spent the time to get it this far, and he said feedback is welcome.

dlg


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