On Wednesday 20 August 2008 01:05:55 Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:10:44PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > We need both. CSUM2 is the new virtio-level feature. > > Perhaps that's what I'm misisng. How is this different to CSUM?
Because current guests which say they can handle CSUM can't *really* handle it. That's the entire point. We need a new one, so that existing guests don't ack it (because they don't understand it), and new guests can ack it later. Hope that clarifies, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
