netdev - Re: [PATCH net] gso: do GSO for local skb with size bigger than MTU

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Message-ID: <20141202170927.GA9457@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2014 17:09:27 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	"Du, Fan" <fan.du@...el.com>, 'Jason Wang' <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"fw@...len.de" <fw@...len.de>, dev@...nvswitch.org, mst@...hat.com,
	jesse@...ira.com, pshelar@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gso: do GSO for local skb with size bigger than MTU

On 12/02/14 at 01:48pm, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> What about containers or any other virtualization environment that
> doesn't use Virtio?

The host can dictate the MTU in that case for both veth or OVS
internal which would be primary container plumbing techniques.

ivshmem would need it's own fix.
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