Bug 461866
| Summary: | net: Enable TSO if supported by at least one device | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Herbert Xu <herbert.xu> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Herbert Xu <herbert.xu> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | chrisw, dzickus, markmc, qcai, rlerch | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 20:11:45 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Created attachment 316383 [details]
net: Enable TSO if supported by at least one device
Regenerated for RHEL5.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. in kernel-2.6.18-115.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html |
Created attachment 316378 [details] net: Enable TSO if supported by at least one device This patch is needed to allow host => guest traffic to use TSO when the host physical interface does not support TSO itself. Not a problem for RHEL5 Xen but is a problem for virtio and later versions of Xen.