[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: S/G and HW checksum support

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Sep 2 12:15:55 PDT 2007


> Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at dev.mellanox.co.il>:
> Subject: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: S/G and HW checksum support
> 
> Add module option hw_csum: when set, IPoIB will report S/G
> support, and rely on hardware end-to-end transport checksum (ICRC)
> instead of software-level protocol checksums.
> 
> Since this will not inter-operate with older IPoIB modules,
> this option is off by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>

Roland, any opinion on this one?
Can this be queued for 2.6.24?

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MST



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