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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH lnf-queue] src: prepare for new release
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:37:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170621163700.GA6437@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170620222852.19879-1-fw@strlen.de>

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:28:52AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> diff --git a/src/libnetfilter_queue.c b/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
> index 211a8ba75d79..69db0e02fc5b 100644
> --- a/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
> +++ b/src/libnetfilter_queue.c
> @@ -658,6 +658,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nfq_set_mode);
>   * - NFQA_CFG_F_GSO (requires Linux kernel >= 3.10): the kernel will
>   *   not normalize offload packets, i.e. your application will need to
>   *   be able to handle packets larger than the mtu (up to 64k).
> + *   Normalization is expensive, so this flag should always be set.

With this on, I see more chances to hit the netlink attribute
limitation, so packets on the 64k will be truncated?

Probably good to document this too.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-06-21 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-20 22:28 [PATCH lnf-queue] src: prepare for new release Florian Westphal
2017-06-21 16:37 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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