netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net-gre-gro: Add GRE support to the GRO stack

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Message-Id: <20140107.162251.778631453084913688.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:22:51 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hkchu@...gle.com
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net-gre-gro: Add GRE support to the GRO stack

From: "H.K. Jerry Chu" <hkchu@...gle.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2014 10:23:19 -0800

> From: Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
> 
> This patch built on top of Commit 299603e8370a93dd5d8e8d800f0dff1ce2c53d36
> ("net-gro: Prepare GRO stack for the upcoming tunneling support") to add
> the support of the standard GRE (RFC1701/RFC2784/RFC2890) to the GRO
> stack. It also serves as an example for supporting other encapsulation
> protocols in the GRO stack in the future.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.

We really need to talk about what we want to happen with these GRO
offloads when GRE is not configured into the kernel.

Right now, the GRO offloads simply won't happen.

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