netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] xen-netback: handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets from the guest

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Date:	Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:50:21 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Paul Durrant" <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>
Cc:	"David Vrabel" <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	"Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] xen-netback: handle
 IPv6 TCP GSO packets from the guest

>>> On 08.10.13 at 15:42, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com> wrote:
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wei Liu [mailto:wei.liu2@...rix.com]
>> Sent: 08 October 2013 14:32
>> To: Paul Durrant
>> Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xen.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Wei Liu; David Vrabel;
>> Ian Campbell
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] xen-netback: handle IPv6 TCP GSO
>> packets from the guest
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:58:15AM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> > This patch a xenstore flag, festure-gso-tcpv6, to adevrtise netback can
>>             ^ adds            feature               advertise
>> 
>> > handle IPv6 TCP GSO packets and creates SKB_GSO_TCPV6 skbs if the
>> frontend
>> > passes an extra segment with the new type XEN_NETIF_GSO_TYPE_TCPV6
>> added to
>> > netif.h.
>> 
>> Note the new type should be synced to Xen's netif.h tree with separate
>> patch for Xen.
>> 
> 
> Ok. Do you think it is reasonable to make incremental changes to netif.h in 
> this series and then submit a patch to xen-devel with the complete set once 
> this series is accepted?

I would think so.

Jan

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