netdev - Re: tcp: Do not apply TSO segment limit to non-TSO packets

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Date:	Sat, 3 Jan 2015 09:09:35 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, thomas.jarosch@...ra2net.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: tcp: Do not apply TSO segment limit to non-TSO packets

On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 05:06:29PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>
> I think the rarity of PMTU events on non-VPN'd connections plays
> a part in how long it took as well.

Maybe in your neck of the woods but certainly in China I observe
loads of PMTU events without involving any VPNs at all :)

In fact even the fibre connections here use PPPOE so PMTU is
sort of unavoidable.

Cheers,
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