Hi Herbert, Thanks for your response!
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > The NETIF_F_GSO flag turns on software GSO which should be on > anyway. So that could be why it seems to make no difference. GSO is on by default? That makes sense, okay. > > NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE is actually a collection of bits that lists > the protocols for which we support software GSO. The bits themselves > are in fact an indication that the hardware supports GSO directly. > So by turning them on you're electing to receive GSO packets > directly. Right -- I saw the expansion in the header file -- it gets the various TSOs plus UFO. So what this means is that the packet hasn't yet been split up? So were I to add this option, then my driver would have to be responsible for splitting up the super-packets manually? In which case, there would be no performance benefit in using it, since GSO already does this just prior to ndo_start_xmit? Or would there be a performance benefit in receiving the super-packets and splitting them myself? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
