OK, but it should be easy to remove HW cksum as a condition to do zerocopy?
>
> Don't let this stop you, however. It's always possible that other networking
> stacks will eventually make use of SG while not requiring HW TCP/UDP cksums.
> None of them do right now, but...
zerocopy without requiring HW cksums only OR could for instance the forwarding
procdure also benefit from SG without requiring HW cksums?
>
> > (hmm, one could make SG mandatory and the devices that don't support it can
> > implement it in their driver. Just an idea)
>
> Not really, that way lies driver madness. The less complexity in the driver,
> the better.
Just a wild idea, forget it. You are right
Joakim
>
> Ion
> [starfire driver maintainer]
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