netdev - Re: [net PATCH 2/2] ipv4/GRO: Make GRO conform to RFC 6864

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Date:	Sat, 2 Apr 2016 09:57:10 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	aduyck@...antis.com, tom@...bertland.com, jesse@...nel.org,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net PATCH 2/2] ipv4/GRO: Make GRO conform to RFC 6864

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
> I do not particularly care, but it is worth mentioning that GRO+TSO
> would not be idempotent anymore.

We could easily fix that by adding a feature bit to control this,
something like SKB_GSO_TCP_FIXEDID.

Cheers,
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