netdev - Re: TSO trimming question

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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:55:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TSO trimming question

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:18 +0800

> Ilpo J??rvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >> is the limitting factor? For latter IMHO this would be necessary:
> >> 
> >>                       if (skb->len > limit)
> >>                               limit -= limit % mss_now;
> 
> Good catch! But how about putting this logic into tcp_window_allows
> since then you can avoid the divide for the case when we're not
> bound by the receiver window.

Because the purpose of this calculation is different, as I
described in my other reply, I don't think this change is
correct, regardless of where it is placed :-)
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