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

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Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 18:56:01 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/5] udp: Do not pass checksum or MSS as
 parameters



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 ?