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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [NET] front: Fix features on resume when csum is off
On 16/8/06 2:11 am, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [NET] front: Fix features on resume when csum is off
>
> When the netfront driver is resumed the features are renegotiated with
> the backend. However, I forgot take into account the status of the TX
> checksum setting. When TX checksum is disabled by the user, we cannot
> enable SG or TSO since both require checksum offload. This patch makes
> xennet check the checksum setting before renegotiating SG or TSO.
This seems a bit odd. Shouldn't it be up to the network stack to not use
SG/TSO if it can't use them with a non-checksumming interface? What is the
failure mode currently?
-- Keir
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