From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sthemmin@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] veth, bridge, and GSO maximums
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:47:21 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171130.104721.823106331151241632.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171126181749.19288-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:17:47 -0800
> This pair of patchesimproves the performance when running
> containers in an environment where underlying device has lower
> GSO maximum (such as Azure).
>
> With containers a veth pair is created and one end is attached
> to the bridge device. The bridge device correctly reports
> computes GSO parameters that are the minimum of the lower devices.
>
> The problem is that the other end of the veth device (in container)
> reports the full GSO size. This patch propogates the upper
> (bridge device) parameters to the other end of the veth device.
>
> Please consider it as alternative to the sysfs GSO changes.
I like this approach a lot, please resubmit this formally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-30 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-26 18:17 [PATCH RFC 0/2] veth, bridge, and GSO maximums Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-26 18:17 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] br: add notifier for when bridge changes it " Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-26 18:17 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] veth: propagate bridge GSO to peer Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-27 3:13 ` David Ahern
2017-11-27 7:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-27 20:14 ` Solio Sarabia
2017-11-27 21:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-28 1:42 ` Solio Sarabia
2017-11-28 2:02 ` David Ahern
2017-11-30 0:35 ` Solio Sarabia
2017-11-30 17:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 17:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:38 ` David Miller
2017-11-30 17:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 18:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 18:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-01 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 15:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-11-30 17:11 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] veth, bridge, and GSO maximums Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 20:50 ` Alexander Duyck
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