From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, dsahern@gmail.com, kys@microsoft.com,
shiny.sebastian@intel.com,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] veth: allow configuring GSO maximums
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:25:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205172510.1f3cfd9f@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1512522866-5544-3-git-send-email-solio.sarabia@intel.com>
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:14:26 -0800
Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>
> Veth's can be used in environments (like Azure) where the underlying
> network device is impacted by large GSO packets. This patch allows
> gso maximum values to be passed in when creating the device via
> netlink.
>
> In theory, other pseudo devices could also use netlink attributes
> to set GSO maximums but for now veth is what has been observed
> to be an issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com>
I am testing new version with changelink support
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 1:14 [PATCH 0/2] Allow changing device gso maximums Solio Sarabia
2017-12-06 1:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] rtnetlink: allow GSO maximums to be passed to device Solio Sarabia
2017-12-06 1:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] veth: allow configuring GSO maximums Solio Sarabia
2017-12-06 1:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-12-06 1:50 ` Solio Sarabia
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