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Re: [Xen-devel] Linux TCP Checksum offload limitations
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"James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Re: [Xen-devel] Linux TCP Checksum offload limitations |
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Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:02:38 +0100 |
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:04:53 +1100
"James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some version of Windows appear to give the network adapter driver a
> packet broken up into fairly small pieces, eg
> Page 0: 14 bytes of Ethernet Header
> Page 1: 20 bytes of IP Header
> Page 2: 20 bytes of TCP Header
> Page 3: 1460 bytes of TCP Data
NDIS fragments are nothing to do with the wire side interface
> Our best guess is that the Linux checksum offload code can't cope with
> the way Windows is fragmenting the packets, but maybe Xen is somehow
> involved in this...
Unconnected with Linux, Xen bug. Xen is responsible for handling NDIS s/g
lists on the windows side and turning them into a single virtual network
packet
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