linux-kernel - Re: NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE vs NETIF_F

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Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:43:31 +0100
From:	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE vs NETIF_F_GSO

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with your idea.  After
> all what you're describing is the basis of GSO, i.e., letting
> data stay in the form of super-packets for as long as we can.
>
> Of course there's going to be a lot of niggly bits that you'll
> have to sort out to get it to work.

Okay, great. In that case, it's the niggly bits I need to wrestle
with. Any nice convenience functions for this? Or pointers to
examples?

Would it be best to (1) allocate a massive linear skb, and then bit by
bit call skb_put (as in my example in the last email)? Or would it be
best to (2) make individual packets, and then string them together in
a FRAGLIST fashion (or is there no driver support for this)? Or would
it be best (3) to some how use the array of 16 frags, and allocate
with the alloc_skb_wth_frags function, and then super cumbersomely try
to iterate over broken-up pages?

I think (3) is going to be super hard if not impossible for my setup.
If there were some way of combining multiple skbs into a super packet,
or if the fraglist was okay to use in this regard, that'd be a
lifesaver. So far my approach with (1) hasn't been working.
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