On 8/22/05, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:31:02 +0200 > > > BTW a software only LRO would be quite imaginable too. > > Absolutely, and it would be excellent for prototyping. > > Most receive offload technologies can be experimented with using a > software simulator that sits watching netif_receive_skb() calls. > > The same for send side schemes as well, the loopback driver can do > LSO for example :-)
Yes, great stuff, while in Canada I _very_ briefly thought and mentioned, IIRC to Jamal, Thomas or Patrick about "TSO squared", TSOO, TSO Offload, i.e. to have a TSO software implementation used only when the card didn't supported TSO, same stuff, like you mentioned above, for LRO and LSO, probably/possibly simplifying the stack by making it assume all net cards had these features and not doing open coded feature "capacity queries" sprinkled all over the place. - Arnaldo - 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
