netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: define sctp_packet_gso

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:36:51 -0400
From:   Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     lucien.xin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, marcelo.leitner@...il.com,
        eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: define sctp_packet_gso_append to build
 GSO frames

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 07:05:59PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:46:43 -0400
> 
> > Do you have any performance numbers to compare with and without this
> > patch?  Adding a function like this implies that any fixes that go
> > into skb_gro_receive now need to be evaluated for this function too,
> > which means theres an implied overhead in maintaining it.  If we're
> > signing up for that, I'd like to know that theres a significant
> > performance benefit.
> 
> Neil, I asked Xin and Marcelo to do this.
> 
> There is no reason for GSO code to use a GRO helper.
> 
> And this is, in particular, blocking some skb_gro_receive() surgery
> I plan to perform.
> 
I agree, I wasn't aware of your intentions regarding skb_gro_receive, and have
acked the patch

Neil