From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] veth: allow configuring GSO maximums Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:25:10 -0800 Message-ID: <20171205172510.1f3cfd9f@xeon-e3> References: <1512522866-5544-1-git-send-email-solio.sarabia@intel.com> <1512522866-5544-3-git-send-email-solio.sarabia@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, dsahern@gmail.com, kys@microsoft.com, shiny.sebastian@intel.com, Stephen Hemminger To: Solio Sarabia Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f170.google.com ([209.85.192.170]:42321 "EHLO mail-pf0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753306AbdLFBZS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:25:18 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f170.google.com with SMTP id d23so1556013pfe.9 for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:25:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1512522866-5544-3-git-send-email-solio.sarabia@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:14:26 -0800 Solio Sarabia wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > > Veth's can be used in environments (like Azure) where the underlying > network device is impacted by large GSO packets. This patch allows > gso maximum values to be passed in when creating the device via > netlink. > > In theory, other pseudo devices could also use netlink attributes > to set GSO maximums but for now veth is what has been observed > to be an issue. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > Signed-off-by: Solio Sarabia I am testing new version with changelink support