Re: gso: Attempt to handle mega-GRO packets

Eric Dumazet
2013-11-06T05:20:24Z

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 12:28 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:23:05PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > Nope, I already mentioned this :
> >
> > Please take a look at 2613af0ed18a11d5c566a81f9a6510b73180660a
> > ("virtio_net: migrate mergeable rx buffers to page frag allocators")
>
> This patch should simply be reverted. You guys steam-rolled over
> the virtio_net people's concerns that this seriously impacts virt
> performance.
>

Have you followed netdev traffic lately ?

virtio_net performance is better than before, and we did no revert,
thank you.

I am really tired, I'll fix skb_segment() tomorrow.