[openib-general] Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Oct 10 17:26:56 PDT 2006
Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
>
> Michael> Maybe I can patch linux to allow SG without checksum?
> Michael> Dave, maybe you could drop a hint or two on whether this
> Michael> is worthwhile and what are the issues that need
> Michael> addressing to make this work?
>
> What do you really gain by allowing SG without checksum? Someone has
> to do the checksum anyway, so I don't see that much difference between
> doing it in the networking core before passing the data to/from the
> driver, or down in the driver itself.
My guess was, an extra pass over data is likely to be expensive - dirtying the
cache if nothing else. But I do plan to measure that, and see.
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MST
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