netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 00/11] udp gso

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Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:50:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 00/11] udp gso 

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:00:50 -0400

> Segmentation offload reduces cycles/byte for large packets by
> amortizing the cost of protocol stack traversal.
> 
> This patchset implements GSO for UDP.

This looks great.

And as mentioned in other emails, the interface looks good too by letting
the app choose the segmentation point.

It's a real shame we lose checksumming with MSG_MORE, perhaps we can find
a way to lift that restriction?