Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 16:38:44 EST


Steve Whitehouse writes:
> Do you mean that devices will not be able to indicate support of SG seperately
> from hw checksum or that the IP zerocopy will simply ignore devices which
> do not have both ?

IP will ignore devices which do not have both.

> DECnet assumes that the mac level checksum will detect all errors and does
> not have a checksum of its own on data, so it would only need SG to benefit
> from the zerocopy framework,

Which is just fine.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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