On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 04:14:49PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > We currently perform GSO on packets before adding a vlan tag, > which is reliable but hurts performance. Even NICs that support > TSO on vlan tagged packets typically expect vlan acceleration to > be used. Before 2.6.37 we can't use vlan acceleration and must > place the tag in the packet itself, which is risky when used with > TSO. However, if the driver is known to work with internally > tagged packets and TSO this exposes a module parameter to enable it. > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>
Oh, one more thing: we should document this module parameter somewhere, if only in INSTALL.Linux. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_openvswitch.org
