On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:42:30AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > 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. This functionality doesn't relate to ABI change and don't change current/future interfaces. There is no need to stop changes like this. > > Eg, the gross thing Christoph points out about the QP type bitmap can > probably go away in the new uAPI. We are taking part in this new ABI effort and have full responsibility to adapt our drivers (mlx4/mlx5) to new ABI whenever it comes. > > Jason > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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