linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/5] Implement ndo_gso

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Message-Id: <20141105.211558.969082848816106943.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:15:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joestringer@...ira.com
Cc:	gerlitz.or@...il.com, therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	sathya.perla@...lex.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	linux.nics@...el.com, amirv@...lanox.com, shahed.shaikh@...gic.com,
	Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...gic.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] Implement ndo_gso_check() for vxlan nics

From: Joe Stringer <joestringer@...ira.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:06:46 -0800

> My impression was that the changes are more likely to be
> hardware-specific (like the i40e changes) rather than software-specific,
> like changes that might be integrated into the helper.

I think there is more commonality amongst hardware capabilities,
and this is why I want the helper to play itself out.

> That said, I can rework for one helper. The way I see it would be the
> same code as these patches, as "vxlan_gso_check(struct sk_buff *)" in
> drivers/net/vxlan.c which would be called from each driver. Is that what
> you had in mind?

Yes.
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