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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/8] virtio/lib:add vhost TX checksum support capabilities
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:41:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112014149.GE2326@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151111093114.46bb40ee@xeon-e3>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:31:14AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:26:57 +0800
> Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:40:41PM +0800, Jijiang Liu wrote:
> > > Add vhost TX offload(CSUM and TSO) support capabilities.
> > 
> > Claiming first that we support something, and then actually implementing
> > in a later patch is wrong, as at this stage, we actually does not support
> > that, hence, the functionality is broken.
> > 
> > 	--yliu
> 
> Actually in this case it is okay to claim that driver "might" use offload
> cabability but never do it.

But it will not work once it does use it, right?

	--yliu

> But agree in general better to keep both together.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-11  6:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/8] add virtio offload support in us-vhost Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/8] driver/virtio:add virtual address for virtio net header Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/8] driver/virtio:record virtual address of " Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/8] virtio/lib:add vhost TX checksum support capabilities Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  8:26   ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-11 17:31     ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-12  1:41       ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/8] virtio/lib:dequeue vhost TX offload Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/8] sample/vhost:remove ip_hdr structure defination Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  8:34   ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-11 10:05     ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/8] examples/vhost:support TX offload in vhost sample Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/8] virtio/lib:add virtio guest offload capabilities Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  8:31   ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-11  8:38     ` Liu, Jijiang
2015-11-11  8:44       ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-11  8:53         ` Liu, Jijiang
2015-11-11  8:57           ` Xu, Qian Q
2015-11-11 11:10             ` Liu, Jijiang
2015-11-11 10:08           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-11 12:53           ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-11  6:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 8/8] virtio/lib:add guest offload handle Jijiang Liu
2015-11-11  8:23   ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-11 10:19     ` Thomas Monjalon

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