netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] Add support for software UDP fragmentation offload(UFO)

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:04:05 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] Add support for software UDP
	fragmentation offload(UFO)

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:09:41AM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> The following set of patches fixes support for UDP fragmentation offload
> in the core networking stack to send/receive large UDP packets over UFO
> enabled devices and fallback to software UFO when the outgoing device 
> doesn't support UFO.
> These patches enable setting UFO on virtio-net and tap devices and allow
> large UDP packets to be sent between guest to host and inter guest under
> KVM.
> 
> [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/5] udpv4: Handle large incoming UDP/IPv4 packets and support software UFO.
> [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/5] udpv6: Fix HW checksum support for outgoing UFO packets
> [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/5] udpv6: Fix gso_size setting in ip6_ufo_append_data
> [PATCH net-next-2.6 4/5] udpv6: Remove unused skb argument of ipv6_select_ident()
> [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/5] udpv6: Handle large incoming UDP/IPv6 packets and support software UFO

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

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