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From: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: fix tunneled VM traffic over hw VXLAN/GRE
 GSO NIC
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:25:53 +0200
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@plumgrid.com> wrote:
> This is also seen on 'net'.
>
> VM to VM GSO traffic is broken if it goes through VXLAN or GRE
> tunnel and the physical NIC on the host supports hardware VXLAN/GRE
> GSO offload (e.g. bnx2x and next-gen mlx4).

Ack, this patch solves the breakage of VM traffic that is subject to
offloaded vxlan traffic which I see with latest kernels and the mlx4
patches I posted last week. So how we make progress here, is this
patch getting in or the alternative suggested down the thread by
Wei-Chun here http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/303025/?