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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Trouble with TCP between domUs

To: dme@xxxxxxx (David Edmondson)
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Trouble with TCP between domUs
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:13:26 +1100
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David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The inter-domain protocol has no facility to allow the guest to
> specify the offset at which the checksum should be placed - how does
> the peer know where to put it?

When I extended the netback protocol for TSO the idea was that you
can also have an extra descriptor for checksum offload that would
carry the offsets.

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