[openib-general] enable GSO over IPoIB

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Oct 10 07:31:27 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Shirley Ma <xma at us.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: enable GSO over IPoIB
> 
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at mellanox.co.il> wrote on 09/27/2006 01:30:03 AM:
> >Any idea what does ethtool do that IPoIB can't support?
> >
> ethtool is an ethernet device tool. It's OK to partically implement ethtool
> operations in IPoIB.

I just looked at this - this is just a matter of calling SET_ETHTOOL_OPS,
isn't it?

> We also need to patch the userlevel utility to support
> ibX interface. Now it only supports ethX.

Probably not a big deal either, right?

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MST




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