netdev - Re: [PATCH] Net: Don't send ICMP_FRAG

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:40:43 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Net: Don't send ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED for GSO packets

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:34:08PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Commit 9af3912ec9e30509b76cb376abb65a4d8af27df3 added a new check to
> send ICMP fragmentation needed for large packets.
> 
> Unlike the check in ip_finish_output(), it doesn't check for GSO.  I
> triggered this with the GSO TUN patches, so not sure if it needs to be
> in 2.6.25 or not (do we otherwise forward GSO packets?).
> 
> Cc: John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

Since this is a regression for Xen, I would say yes.

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