netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 2/5] udp: Do not pass checksum or MSS as parameters

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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 07:27:41 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/5] udp: Do not pass checksum or MSS as parameters

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/03/2018 05:33 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>>
>> This patch is meant to be a start at cleaning up some of the UDP GSO
>> segmentation code. Specifically we were passing mss and a recomputed
>> checksum when we really didn't need to. The function itself could derive
>> that information based on the already provided checksum, the length of the
>> packet stored in the UDP header, and the gso_size.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>> ---
>>  include/net/udp.h      |    3 +-
>>  net/ipv4/udp_offload.c |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>  net/ipv6/udp_offload.c |    7 +-----
>>  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>
>
> There are really a lot of changes in this patch (not mentioned in changelog).
>
> Can you please split all this in small patches ?

I'll see what I can do for the next version. I think I can come up
with an in-between step that should help to cut this down in size.

Thanks.

- Alex