From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, amirv@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: only pull headers into skb head
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:35:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140905.223547.1067550845666436634.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409966985.11872.6.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:29:45 -0700
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> Use the new fancy eth_get_headlen() to pull exactly the headers
> into skb->head.
>
> This speeds up GRE traffic (or more generally tunneled traffuc),
> as GRO can aggregate up to 17 MSS per GRO packet instead of 8.
>
> (Pulling too much data was forcing GRO to keep 2 frags per MSS)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Looks great, applied, thanks Eric.
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2014-09-06 1:29 [PATCH net-next] mlx4: only pull headers into skb head Eric Dumazet
2014-09-06 5:35 ` David Miller [this message]
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