netdev - Re: gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:36:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag_list

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:56:39 +1100

> gro: Check for GSO packets and packets with frag_list
> 
> As GRO cannot be applied to packets with frag_list we need to
> make sure that we reject such packets if they are fed to us,
> e.g., through a tunnel device.
> 
> Also there is no point in applying GRO on GSO packets so they
> too should be rejected.  This allows GRO to be used in virtio-net
> which may produce GSO packets directly but may still benefit
> from GRO if the other end of it doesn't support GSO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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