netdev - Re: [net] GRE: enable offloads for GRE

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Message-Id: <20140711.135434.2199154793674154732.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:54:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	amritha.nambiar@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	joseph.gasparakis@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net] GRE: enable offloads for GRE

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:29:21 -0700

> From: Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>
> 
> To get offloads to work with Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), the
> outer transport header has to be reset after skb_push is done. This
> patch has the support for this fix and hence GRE offloading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@...el.com>
> Tested-By: Jim Young <jamesx.m.young@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

I think, generally speaking, this is more about making sure the
SKB is in a proper state.  If that happens to make offloads over
GRE work properly, that's certainly a nice side effect :)

Applied, thanks.
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