From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45016 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754575AbeCRQHW (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:07:22 -0400 Subject: Patch "veth: set peer GSO values" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: stephen@networkplumber.org, alexander.levin@microsoft.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, sthemmin@microsoft.com Cc: , From: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:05:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1521389143139161@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled veth: set peer GSO values to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: veth-set-peer-gso-values.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:40:20 -0800 Subject: veth: set peer GSO values From: Stephen Hemminger [ Upstream commit 72d24955b44a4039db54a1c252b5031969eeaac3 ] When new veth is created, and GSO values have been configured on one device, clone those values to the peer. For example: # ip link add dev vm1 gso_max_size 65530 type veth peer name vm2 This should create vm1 <--> vm2 with both having GSO maximum size set to 65530. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/veth.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/veth.c +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c @@ -425,6 +425,9 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_ if (ifmp && (dev->ifindex != 0)) peer->ifindex = ifmp->ifi_index; + peer->gso_max_size = dev->gso_max_size; + peer->gso_max_segs = dev->gso_max_segs; + err = register_netdevice(peer); put_net(net); net = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stephen@networkplumber.org are queue-4.9/veth-set-peer-gso-values.patch queue-4.9/netem-apply-correct-delay-when-rate-throttling.patch