netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] sctp: Add GSO support

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Date:	Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:37:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	lucien.xin@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	David.Laight@...LAB.COM, vyasevich@...il.com,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net, fw@...len.de,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] sctp: Add GSO support

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Jun 2016 15:05:37 -0300

> This patchset adds sctp GSO support.
> 
> Performance tests indicates that increases throughput by 10% if using
> bigger chunk sizes, specially if bigger than MTU. For small chunks, it
> doesn't help much if not using heavy firewall rules.
> 
> For small chunks it will probably be of more use once we get something
> like MSG_MORE as David Laight had suggested.
> 
> overall changes:
> v1->v2:
> Added support for receiving GSO frames on SCTP stack, as requested by
> Dave Miller.
> 
> v2->v3:
> Consider sctphdr size in skb_gso_transport_seglen()
> rebased due to 5c7cdf339af5 ("gso: Remove arbitrary checks for
> unsupported GSO")

Series applied, thanks Marcelo.