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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fleitner@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reset gso header when the copied skb is linearized
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:31:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101026.113157.233700961.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288045398-3110-1-git-send-email-fleitner@redhat.com>

From: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:23:18 -0200

> The gso header is incorrect when the copied skb is
> linearized. This patch creates another helper function
> to copy the gso header when it is appropriated
> 
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>

I don't understand why the GSO information should be
omitted just because we are creating a linearlized
version of the SKB?

The packet still could have a larger than MSS size,
and thus be composed of multiple actual segments for
the network.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 22:23 [PATCH] net: reset gso header when the copied skb is linearized Flavio Leitner
2010-10-26 18:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-26 19:25   ` Flavio Leitner
2010-10-26 19:28     ` David Miller
2010-10-26 19:38       ` Herbert Xu
2010-11-04 20:35       ` Flavio Leitner

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