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From: Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] veth: allow configuring GSO maximums
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:50:41 -0800
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 05:25:10PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Dec 2017 17:14:26 -0800
> Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > 
> > 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 <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com>
> 
> I am testing new version with changelink support

Ack, I second whatever version works best.
Will help to try newer patches.