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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:03:15 -0400
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] ipv6: Enable enough of the code to handle GSO when
 disabled.

On 10/17/2012 12:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 18:13 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 11:46 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>>
>>> This patch attempts to solve this by enabling just enough code so GSO
>>> is correctly processed.  However, I should point out that if IPv6 is
>>> simply blacklisted or not built for the kernel, this problem will
>>> still persist.
>>
>> So I guess this should be done in a different way ?
>>
>> We currently use a single structure (struct packet_type) to hold
>> pointers to different methods. (The .func() field, and the gso/gro
>> stuff)
>>
>> We probably need to split it in two parts, and make one part linked into
>> kernel, even if CONFIG_IPV6=n, so that GRO/GSO is fully IPv4/IPv6
>> functional.
> [...]
>
> Either that or make sure that we don't advertise IPv6 GSO when IPv6 is
> disabled.
>
> Ben.
>

this becomes a problem when migration or save/restore is used.  since 
offload features may be different between systesm, we may not be able to 
migrate.

-vlad
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