Re: gso: Attempt to handle mega-GRO packets

Herbert Xu
2013-11-07T00:39:53Z

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:05:41AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Sure, if your host has infinite amount of memory, we can remove all the
> silly and expensive and bore some checks we added in the stack against
> skb->truesize.
>
> And yes, network stack will be faster.
>
> But in real life, we have memory constraints.

With intra-page fragmentation, it's not clear that you'd be better
off with this patch in the long run anyway.

Cheers,
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