[openib-general] Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Oct 10 20:33:46 PDT 2006
Michael> My guess was, an extra pass over data is likely to be
Michael> expensive - dirtying the cache if nothing else. But I do
Michael> plan to measure that, and see.
I don't get it -- where's the extra pass? If you can't compute the
checksum on the NIC then you have to compute sometime it on the CPU
before passing the data to the NIC.
- R.
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