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On 9/28/22 7:14 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> How about other metadata like gso_type, gso_segs, csum_start and
> csum_offset etc? This looks like a must for GSO to work even if
> multi-buffer is supported.

XDP redirect on Rx, packet by packet, only needs checksum valid data.

Tx and GSO is a much bigger problem.