netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature

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Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:14:33 +0100
From:   David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:     Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:     Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] xen-netback: retire guest rx
 side prefix GSO feature

On 04/10/16 10:29, Paul Durrant wrote:
> As far as I am aware only very old Windows network frontends make use of
> this style of passing GSO packets from backend to frontend. These
> frontends can easily be replaced by the freely available Xen Project
> Windows PV network frontend, which uses the 'default' mechanism for
> passing GSO packets, which is also used by all Linux frontends.
> 
> NOTE: Removal of this feature will not cause breakage in old Windows
>       frontends. They simply will no longer receive GSO packets - the
>       packets instead being fragmented in the backend.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>

David