netdev - Re: [PATCH] tun: virtio net is not compatible with LRO

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Message-ID: <20090603075906.GA9857@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:59:07 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tun: virtio net is not compatible with LRO

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:52:55PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> So, skb_is_gso() is true, but it's not actually a gso frame?
> 
> I know nothing about LRO, but that seems wrong.  If you bridge any other GSO 
> device with an LRO device, does that do random things as well?

Yeah you don't want to know about LRO.  The good news is that
LRO is going away so this is temporary.

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