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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:13:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, horms@...ge.net.au, jhs@...atatu.com,
	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dev@...nvswitch.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v4] Add TCP encap_rcv hook (repost)

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:08:49 -0700

> Assuming that the TCP stack generates large TSO frames on transmit
> (which could be the local stack; something sent by a VM; or packets
> received, coalesced by GRO and then encapsulated by STT) then you can
> just prepend the STT header (possibly slightly adjusting things like
> requested MSS, number of segments, etc. slightly).  After that it's
> possible to just output the resulting frame through the IP stack like
> all tunnels do today.

Which seems to potentially suggest a stronger intergration of the STT
tunnel transmit path into our IP stack rather than the approach Simon
is taking
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