From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:13:53 -0800
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:06 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> >> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:59:05 +0100 >> >>> Yes, I agree, I am totally with you here. If generic offloading can be >>> realized by NICs I am totally with you that this should be the way to >>> go. I don't see that coming in the next (small number of) years, so I >>> don't see a reason to stop this patchset. >> >> If I just apply this and say "yeah ok", the message is completely lost >> and your prediction about "small number of years" indeed will occur. >> >> However if I push back hard on this, as I will, then the message has >> some chance of seeping back to the people designing these chips. >> >> So that's what I'm going to do, like it or not. >> >> Or can someone convince me that someone who understand this stuff >> is telling the hardware guys to universally put 2's complement >> checksums into the descriptors? >> > We're talking about 1's complement checksum (RFC1701). Just to be clear :-) Right :) -- 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
