Re: [UNTESTED] gro: Add page frag support

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:24:46 +1100

> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:51:57AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > This patch is totally untested so please don't apply it.  I need
> > to hack the e1000e driver to not make skbs before I can test it.
> 
> OK I've tested it with a hacked e1000e driver, which indeed revealed
> a gaping hole in my design :) The pages interface needs to have some
> extra fields for the checksum information.
> 
> Here's a patch that actually works.
> 
>     gro: Use gso_size to store MSS
>     
>     In order to allow GRO packets without frag_list at all, we need to
>     store the MSS in the packet itself.  The obvious place is gso_size.
>     The only thing to watch out for is if the packet ends up not being
>     GRO then we need to clear gso_size before pushing the packet into
>     the stack.
 ...
> And the real thing.

This work looks great to me Herbert.

When you want me to apply this stuff, send them as two
seperate changes with updated commit messages.

Thanks a lot!