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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: add TCP fraglist GRO support
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:23:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebe85dca-e0e9-4c55-a15d-20d340f66848@nbd.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89iLddm704LHPDnnoF2RbCfvrivAz0e6HTeiBARmvzoUBjA@mail.gmail.com>

On 23.04.24 14:11, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> wrote:
>>
>> In the world of consumer-grade WiFi devices, there are a lot of chipsets
>> with limited or nonexistent SG support, and very limited checksum
>> offload capabilities on Ethernet. The WiFi side of these devices is
>> often even worse. I think fraglist GRO is a decent fallback for the
>> inevitable corner cases.
> 
> What about netfilter and NAT ? Are they okay with NETIF_F_FRAGLIST_GRO already ?
> 
> Many of these devices are probably using NAT.

In my tests, nftables NAT works just fine, both with and without 
flowtable offloading. I didn't see anything in netfilter that would have 
a problem with this.

- Felix

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-23 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-23  9:41 [RFC] net: add TCP fraglist GRO support Felix Fietkau
2024-04-23 10:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-04-23 10:25   ` Felix Fietkau
2024-04-23 11:17     ` Eric Dumazet
2024-04-23 11:55       ` Felix Fietkau
2024-04-23 12:11         ` Eric Dumazet
2024-04-23 12:23           ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2024-04-23 13:07             ` Eric Dumazet
2024-04-23 14:34             ` Paolo Abeni
2024-04-23 16:55               ` Felix Fietkau
2024-04-24  1:24                 ` Willem de Bruijn
2024-04-24 13:50                   ` Felix Fietkau
2024-04-24 14:30                     ` Willem de Bruijn
2024-04-24 16:26                       ` Felix Fietkau
2024-04-23 15:03   ` David Ahern
2024-04-23 15:18     ` Eric Dumazet

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