From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag_list
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:36:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114.143624.145128481.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114215639.GA25069@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:56:39 +1100
> gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag_list
>
> As GRO cannot be applied to packets with frag_list we need to
> make sure that we reject such packets if they are fed to us,
> e.g., through a tunnel device.
>
> Also there is no point in applying GRO on GSO packets so they
> too should be rejected. This allows GRO to be used in virtio-net
> which may produce GSO packets directly but may still benefit
> from GRO if the other end of it doesn't support GSO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, thanks Herbert.
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2009-01-14 21:56 gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag_list Herbert Xu
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