netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: report IFLA_GSO_MAX_SIZE and IFLA_GSO_MAX

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Message-ID: <1471558478.29842.91.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:14:38 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: report IFLA_GSO_MAX_SIZE and
 IFLA_GSO_MAX_SEGS

On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 14:52 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:39:21 -0700
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > 
> > kernel support for these attributes was added in linux-4.6
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> 
> What about setting them?

This is not something the kernel does at this moment.

Drivers usually set a value, depending on hardware or software
constraints.