Re: driver packet coalesce

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:45:05PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
Does any driver do this now? And if a driver were to coalesce
packets and send something up the stack that violates mss
will it barf?

It would barf for things like bridging where the packet gets spit out a
different interface. The bridge driver already has code to disable
txcsum so it could be made to handle that too.


Andrew
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