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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:58:41 +0000

> (I don't know why there are two ways of adding extra data.  The latter
> does not seem to be used often.)

It's the most efficient way to handle IPv4/IPv6 fragmentation and
reassembly.