netdev - Re: GSO with udp_tunnel_xmit

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Message-ID: <20151109014045.GA1358@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2015 09:40:45 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GSO with udp_tunnel_xmit_skb

On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 03:57:24PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > UDP carries no ordering information so this doesn't work.
> 
> But if there's no ordering information, what's the problem? Isn't it
> good enough to send the packets in the order they were sendto()d? Or
> in any order at all?

You're right.  I don't think the ordering matters.

Cheers,
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