netdev - Re: [PATCH] GRO: fix merging a paged skb after non-paged skbs

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Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:54:53 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GRO: fix merging a paged skb after non-paged skbs

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:04:44PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> That would work, though it looks like Michal has managed to make it
> tolerate switches.  (I haven't yet tested the result myself.)

Well the question is do we really want to still keep merging
in case of a switch? It could potentially get messy if it switches
back over and over again.

However, I suppose other merging criteria will stop the merging
in such cases so it's probably not a big deal.

Cheers,
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