On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:22:59AM +1300, Ian McDonald wrote: > > > What about latest netdev tree rather than 2.6.13.2? > > > > > > There have been changes going on... > > > > Yep..but the answer is always to try one later build..and > > it takes time (I reported similar problems in 2.6.11 and was > > told that 2.6.12 (or maybe .13) was going to fix it...) > > I am afraid that if I go to the effort to reproduce the problem > > in 2.6.14, someone is just going to tell me to try the latest > > pre-15 code. > > Unless you are going to provide full bug reports etc then you have > to work off the latest tree for networking which is currently Dave > Miller's netdev tree. > > Developers are just like you - they don't have unlimited time > either and are often unpaid.
IMHO, you are misreading Ben's words. All he's arguing for is that TSO should be off by default because more often than not it just doesn't work, and every time he reports an issue he is told that version N+1 will work better, honestly. Since I don't use TSO myself I can't comment on that, but if there are issues, his request doesn't seem totally unreasonable to me. (Then again, the "we need as much testing as we can get" argument doesn't sound totally unreasonable either.) --L - 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
