netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: GRO should be ECN friendly

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Message-Id: <20121007.144531.707087734601338126.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:45:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: GRO should be ECN friendly

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:43:30 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> IPv4 side of the problem was addressed in commit a9e050f4e7f9d
> (net: tcp: GRO should be ECN friendly)
> 
> This patch does the same, but for IPv6 : A Traffic Class mismatch
> doesnt mean flows are different, but instead should force a flush
> of previous packets.
> 
> This patch removes artificial packet reordering problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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