netdev - Re: gso: Attempt to handle mega-GRO packets

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Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:28:58 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hkchu@...gle.com, mwdalton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: gso: Attempt to handle mega-GRO packets

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:23:05PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Nope, I already mentioned this :
> 
> Please take a look at 2613af0ed18a11d5c566a81f9a6510b73180660a
> ("virtio_net: migrate mergeable rx buffers to page frag allocators")

This patch should simply be reverted.  You guys steam-rolled over
the virtio_net people's concerns that this seriously impacts virt
performance.

Cheers,
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