netdev - Re: [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking

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Message-Id: <20081201.160722.114600830.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:07:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gallatin@...i.com
Cc:	ossthema@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tklein@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com,
	jb.billaud@...il.com, hering2@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking

From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:53:14 -0500

> What hardware does an explicit check for fragmentation?

If the packet is fragmented, the chip shouldn't even be
looking at the ports to make LRO deferral decisions let
alone pass it down as a LRO'able frame.
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