Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Subject: Re: enable GSO over IPoIB
> 
> >     Shirley> Since linux 2.6.18 supports GSO, I have patched IPoIB to
> >     Shirley> enable GSO, but haven't tested the performance yet. Has
> >     Shirley> anyone tried already?
> >
> > No, I don't think anyone looked at that yet.  Could you post your
> > patch?  What is required?  Supporting gather/scatter?
> >
> >  - R.
> 
> Don't need too. GSO only improves sender side performance. It allows large 
> packet send in ULPs, and segments this packet in interface layer before 
> driver xmit. The GSO enablement is through ethtool. Since ipoib doesn't 
> support ethtool, i just simply added a module parameter to set the interface 
> GSO flag when loading the module.

Any idea what does ethtool do that IPoIB can't support?

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MST

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