netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 07/11] sfc: Do not pass non-TCP packets into GRO code

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Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:56:28 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 07/11] sfc: Do not pass non-TCP packets into
 GRO code

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 23:19 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> GRO can handle non-TCP packets and pass them up without coalescing,
> but it has to do some extra work to parse the packet which we can
> bypass using the hardware parse result.  (Falcon won't mark TCP/IPv6
> packets as TCP, but then it won't validate their checksums either, so
> GRO can't coalesce them.)

Thats not exactly true. GRO can validate the checksums.




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