netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: introduce dev_set

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Date:	Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:40:00 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hkchu@...gle.com, mwdalton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: introduce dev_set_forwarding()

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 12:24 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> I don't know why you're fixing this problem by disabling/degrading
> GRO instead of fixing the qdisc to intelligently segment the GRO
> packet.

On what criteria you decide that the packet you are going to queue to
the NIC must be segmented ?

How do you predict the future ?

BTW, the Qdisc API doesnt really permit what you describe.

There are the queue() and dequeue(). Once packet is dequeued, you cannot
requeue a bunch of packets if you decide to segment the GRO packet.

This would require a lot of changes, while its much easier to give a
limit to GRO layer (replace the 65536 constant in skb_gro_receive() to
dev->max_gro_size).

Its rare the same host is used both as a latency sensitive router, and a
virt box...

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