Re: net-next closing, README
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2016-12-08 03:20:26
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:13:45 -0800 Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:28:45 -0500 (EST) David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
The merge window is about to open soon, and next week I will be having sporadic internet access while travelling around, therefore I am closing net-next up tonight. Therefore, please do not submit any new features or cleanups for net-next. Bug fixes for problems introduced in net-next are fine, however. Thank you.I have a couple of patches that I would like to get into net-next, but it is not critical. They replace the hardcoded workarounds with code that negotiates values with the host. Would these be acceptable? Sorry for the delay but needed to test on oldest supported version to ensure negotiation worked.
Never mind, although the changes work on older versions of Windows Server, the performance would be worse. Basically old servers don't do UDP checksum offload but still are capable of handling TCP. Let me work up a better solution that handles both cases.