linux-kernel - Re: GSO with udp_tunnel_xmit

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9rSGbfNFeQMCXr+0j=mSTfyxFkyLEJ0rMqnOgH6L4OSng@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 8 Nov 2015 15:57:24 +0100
From:	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GSO with udp_tunnel_xmit_skb

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> UDP carries no ordering information so this doesn't work.

But if there's no ordering information, what's the problem? Isn't it
good enough to send the packets in the order they were sendto()d? Or
in any order at all?
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