On Tuesday 23 August 2005 18:01, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:53:58 +0200 > > > However the drawback is that you would likely need to > > submit the packets as two pieces (payload and header) > > which would need more accesses to TX rings and could > > slow down the hardware. > > > > I'm not sure the whole software shim scheme is a good idea. > > It has too many drawbacks. > > We'll see, it's at least worth the try :)
The biggest issue I forgot is that most drivers don't even support NETIF_F_SG. So on those to insert the header you would need to copy all data. -Andi - 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
