netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] Tunneling fixes

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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...nel.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] Tunneling fixes

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:31:59 -0700

> This series fixes a problem that was reported where encapsulated packets
> do not have their encapsulation offload markers stripped off when being
> decapsulated. This causes a significant performance drop if the packets
> are later retransmitted.
> 
> Fixing this revealed two other bugs which are also addressed as prerequisites:
>  * GRO can aggregate packets for multiple layers of encapsulation which the
>    stack cannot properly handle.
>  * IPIP packets which are combined by GRO are not marked properly with their
>    GSO type.
> 
> Note that this is based off the net-next tree as the current target for
> bug fixes.
> 
> v2: No code changes, just additional information in commit messages and
>     a new cover letter.

Applied, thanks for respinning this Jesse.