linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tilegx: fix some issues in the SW TSO support

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:51:53 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tilegx: fix some issues in the SW TSO support

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 13:25 -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> This change correctly computes the header length and data length in
> the fragments to avoid a bug where we would end up with extremely
> slow performance.  Also adopt use of skb_frag_size() accessor.
[...]

By the way, since you're doing soft-TSO you should probably set
net_device::gso_max_segs, as explained in:

commit 30b678d844af3305cda5953467005cebb5d7b687
Author: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date:   Mon Jul 30 15:57:00 2012 +0000

    net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb

Ben.

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