netdev - Re: [PATCH net] r8152: fix tx packets accounting

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Message-Id: <20180226.210258.1987303019079752959.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:02:58 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, hayeswang@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8152: fix tx packets accounting

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:12:10 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> r8152 driver handles TSO packets (limited to ~16KB) quite well,
> but pretends each TSO logical packet is a single packet on the wire.
> 
> There is also some error since headers are accounted once, but
> error rate is small enough that we do not care.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.