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Date:      Tue, 18 May 2010 22:53:27 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r207851 - head/sys/dev/sge
Message-ID:  <20100518224555.G23815@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100518171315.GA5968@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
References:  <201005101714.o4AHEFuu015079@svn.freebsd.org> <20100518032628.S23815@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20100518171315.GA5968@michelle.cdnetworks.com>

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On Tue, 18 May 2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:27:33AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>>
>>> Author: yongari
>>> Date: Mon May 10 17:14:14 2010
>>> New Revision: 207851
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/207851
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> Implement TSO and TSO over VLAN. Increase number of allowed
>>> fragmentation of mbuf chain to 32 from 16 because TSO can send 64KB
>>> sized packet which in turn requires long list of mbuf chain. Due to
>>> lack of documentation, I'm not sure whether driver have to pull up
>>> ethernet/IP/TCP header with options to make controller work but
>>> driver have to parse TCP header to update pseudo TCP checksum
>>> anyway. The controller expects pseudo TCP checksum computed by
>>> upper stack and the checksum should follow the MS NDIS
>>> specification to make TSO work.
>>>
>>> Tested by:	xclin <xclin <> cs dot nctu dot edu dot tw >
>>
>> This brings in INET as a dependency for the driver and fails on my
>> 	nooptions INET
>> 	nooptions INET6
>> kernels (in_pseudo()).
>>
>
> AFAIK sge(4) is not the only driver that has INET dependency. I
> think we need IPv6 offloading framework(checksum offloading, TSO4

There is no checksum on IPv6.

> and TSO6) before removing INET dependency in various drivers.
> Most recent ethernet controllers support IPv6 offloading and
> FreeBSD still lacks these nice features.

This is true, but we should (still) fix this and work on a better
solution.  You may remember that I tried to get this discussion
started twice during the last 12 months.  First time after I added
the inet depency in sys/conf/files for all the other drivers that
have the same problem(s).

I will be very happy to chat with you and np@ and maybe tuexen@ for
SCTP and Drew and Jack again to get this all sorted out.

/bz

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                     (from 21) Micky Rosa:
    But as we've all said, this game is about the past and the future,
    and tonight we forget about the past. We just focus on the future.


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