netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Consider fragmentation of udp tunneled skbs in 'ip_finish_output

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Message-Id: <20160719.164034.1813590621318818547.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shmulik.ladkani@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shmulik.ladkani@...ellosystems.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org, fw@...len.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Consider fragmentation of udp tunneled skbs
 in 'ip_finish_output_gso'

From: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:49:32 +0300

> Currently IP fragmentation of GSO segments that exceed dst mtu is
> considered only in the ipv4 forwarding case.
> 
> There are cases where GSO skbs that are bridged and then udp-tunneled
> may have gso_size exceeding the egress device mtu.
> It makes sense to fragment them, as in the non GSOed code path.
> 
> The exact cases where this behavior is needed is described and addressed
> in the 2nd patch.

Series applied, thanks.