netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/6] UDP GSO Segmentation clean-ups

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Date:   Tue, 08 May 2018 22:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/6] UDP GSO Segmentation clean-ups

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 13:03:47 -0700

> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Alexander Duyck
> <alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
>> This patch set addresses a number of issues I found while sorting out
>> enabling UDP GSO Segmentation support for ixgbe/ixgbevf. Specifically there
>> were a number of issues related to the checksum and such that seemed to
>> cause either minor irregularities or kernel panics in the case of the
>> offload request being allowed to traverse between name spaces.
>>
>> With this set applied I am was able to get UDP GSO traffic to pass over
>> vxlan tunnels in both offloaded modes and non-offloaded modes for ixgbe and
>> ixgbevf.
>>
>> I submitted the driver specific patches earlier as an RFC:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/?series=42477&archive=both&state=*
>>
>> v2: Updated patches based on feedback from Eric Dumazet
>>     Split first patch into several patches based on feedback from Eric
>> v3: Drop patch that was calling pskb_may_pull as it was redundant.
>>     Added code to use MANGLED_0 in case of UDP checksum
>>     Drop patch adding NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_L4 to list of GSO software offloads
>>     Added Acked-by for patches reviewed by Willem and not changed
> 
> Just noticed I forgot to update the subject before sending out the
> cover page. I updated it for this reply. If needed I will submit a v4,
> but for now I will leave this out here to finish up review.

I thought it was kinda amusing, because it shows up as the series name
in patchwork too :-)

Series applied with header posting Subj fixed, thanks Alexander.