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Message-ID: <CAEP_g=_7fyX1qCi8fC0HyzGGESPQSmYQu=_8YWJGZAecL0hT+w@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 10:46:05 -0700 From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> To: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next] MPLS: Use mpls_features to activate software MPLS GSO segmentation On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> wrote: > If an MPLS packet requires segmentation then use mpls_features > to determine if the software implementation should be used. > > As no driver advertises MPLS GSO segmentation this will always be > the case. > > I had not noticed that this was necessary before as software MPLS GSO > segmentation was already being used in my test environment. I believe that > the reason for that is the skbs in question always had fragments and the > driver I used does not advertise NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (which seems to be the > case for most drivers). Thus Thus software segmentation was activated by > skb_gso_ok(). > > Thanks to Jesse Gross for prompting me to investigate this. > > Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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