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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:50:36 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] ipv6: Enable enough of the code to handle GSO when disabled. On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 18:13 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 11:46 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote: > > > This patch attempts to solve this by enabling just enough code so GSO > > is correctly processed. However, I should point out that if IPv6 is > > simply blacklisted or not built for the kernel, this problem will > > still persist. > > So I guess this should be done in a different way ? > > We currently use a single structure (struct packet_type) to hold > pointers to different methods. (The .func() field, and the gso/gro > stuff) > > We probably need to split it in two parts, and make one part linked into > kernel, even if CONFIG_IPV6=n, so that GRO/GSO is fully IPv4/IPv6 > functional. [...] Either that or make sure that we don't advertise IPv6 GSO when IPv6 is disabled. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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