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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: reduce maximum GSO size
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:14:03 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2016 13:43:54 -0800

> Hyper-V (and Azure) support using NVGRE which requires some extra space
> for encapsulation headers. Because of this the largest allowed TSO
> packet is reduced.
> 
> For older releases, hard code a fixed reduced value.  For next release,
> there is a better solution which uses result of host offload
> negotiation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> ---
> Please queue this for stable as well.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.