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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: Limit number of segments generated by GSO
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:20:57 +0100
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On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:46 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:35:52 +0100
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 19:31 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> Or you could introduce a new wk->sk_gso_max_segments, that your sfc
> >> driver sets to whatever limit ?
> > 
> > Yes, that's another option.
> 
> This is how I want this handled.

How should that be applied in the GRO-forwarding case?

Ben.

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