[netdrvr] sfc: Add TSO support

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The SFC4000 controller does not have hardware support for TSO, and the
core GSO code incurs a high cost in allocating and freeing skbs.  This
TSO implementation uses lightweight packet header structures and is
substantially faster.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

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Ben Hutchings 2008-05-07 12:51:12 +01:00 • committed by Jeff Garzik

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drivers/net/sfc/efx.c

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drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c

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drivers/net/sfc/net_driver.h

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drivers/net/sfc/tx.c

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