Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:54:53 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] r8169: support RTL8411 |
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Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com> : [...] > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c > index 6c2835f..99daad7 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c [...] > @@ -250,6 +252,9 @@ static const struct { > JUMBO_9K, false), > [RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_37] = > _R("RTL8402", RTL_TD_1, FIRMWARE_8402_1, > + JUMBO_1K, true), > + [RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38] = > + _R("RTL8411", RTL_TD_1, FIRMWARE_8411_1, > JUMBO_1K, true)
Realtek's product page documents this chipset as a gigabit one. It seems strange to configure it as a jumbo packet unable one.
The patch seems otherwise fine.
On a tangent topic:
"The RTL8411 supports Receive Side Scaling (RSS) to hash incoming TCP connections and load-balance received data processing across multiple CPUs. RSS improves the number of transactions per second and number of connections per second, for increased network throughput. Header Data Split (HDS) support enables faster processing of TCP/IP networking protocols for improved network performance.
Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) is a hardware virtualization technology for the efficient transfer of network traffic to a virtualized host OS. VMQ uses hardware packets filtering to deliver packet data from an external virtual machine network directly to virtual machines, which reduces the overhead of routing packets and copying them from the management operating system to the virtual machine.
Note: RTL8411 Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) is only functional in computers running Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V server role installed."
Will Realtek consider helping make those being available on Linux ?
-- Ueimor
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