Re: [PATCH V1 for-next 0/2] Add support for reporting LSO capabilities

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:04:50PM +0300, Matan Barak wrote:

> This patch series enables hardware to report Large Segment Offload(LSO)
> capabilities from kernel to user space. LSO enabled NIC will accept big chuck of
> data with size greater than MTU. The LSO engine will split them into
> separate packets and insert the headers automatically. With LSO, CPU is
> offloaded from dealing with much less throughput of data.

I also feel like we should stop changing the current uAPI until we get
the new one in place..

Eg, the gross thing Christoph points out about the QP type bitmap can
probably go away in the new uAPI.

Jason
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