From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Herbert Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] net: Generalize udp based tunnel offload Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:53:00 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1449158374.11080.456996721.69F803D7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1449259145.6236.458303617.55CF2C4E@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20151204.150633.1744714566987717806.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: David Miller , Hannes Frederic Sowa , John Linville , Jesse Gross , Anjali Singhai Jain , Netdev , Kiran Patil To: Alexander Duyck Return-path: Received: from mail-io0-f179.google.com ([209.85.223.179]:36280 "EHLO mail-io0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755525AbbLEAxB (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:53:01 -0500 Received: by iofh3 with SMTP id h3so133714309iof.3 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:53:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > I actually tried to push the generic checksum idea for fm10k back > during hardware development but ended up losing that battle. The > problem is you have to have some customer willing to spend the cash in > order to get a feature, and the fact is nobody other than Tom has been > pushing for this. Very well, it is true that I only represent one user of networking protocols, grant it a very large one. I will shut up now. If other USERS want to chime in on what is best I'll certainly listen.