netdev - Re: [2/2] vlan: Add GRO interfaces

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Message-Id: <20090106.105017.124602241.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:50:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/2] vlan: Add GRO interfaces

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:12:16 +1100

> vlan: Add GRO interfaces
> 
> This patch adds GRO interfaces for hardware-assisted VLAN reception.
> With this in place we're now at parity with LRO as far as the
> interface is concerned.  That is, you can now take any LRO driver
> and convert it over to GRO.
> 
> As the CB memory clashes with GRO's use of CB, I've removed it
> entirely by storing dev in skb->dev.  This is OK because VLAN
> gets called first thing in netif_receive_skb and skb->dev is
> not used in between us calling netif_rx and netif_receive_skb
> getting called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Also applied, thanks Herbert.
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