From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kieran Mansley Subject: Re: LRO/GSO interaction when packets are forwarded Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:50:18 +0000 Message-ID: <1205254218.21379.21.camel@moonstone.uk.level5networks.com> References: <1204898997.4220.41.camel@moonstone.uk.level5networks.com> <20080307082538.1a674ae1@extreme> <1204909575.4220.71.camel@moonstone.uk.level5networks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from 216-237-3-220.orange.nextweb.net ([216.237.3.220]:57099 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751521AbYCKQuW (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:50:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1204909575.4220.71.camel@moonstone.uk.level5networks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:06 +0000, Kieran Mansley wrote: > Given that there seem to be a small number of places where this is > currently causing problems (LRO through a bridge to a stack is fine, > it's only if the packet is forwarded that things go wrong), and that an > LRO packet should in most cases be very easy to segment (it's already in > network-sized fragments) I wonder if making it work would be > easier/better than preventing it from happening. I hope to get some time to work on this in the not-too-distant future. Kieran