netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/6] UDP GSO Segmentation clean-ups

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Date:   Mon, 7 May 2018 13:03:47 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/6] UDP GSO Segmentation clean-ups

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
> This patch set addresses a number of issues I found while sorting out
> enabling UDP GSO Segmentation support for ixgbe/ixgbevf. Specifically there
> were a number of issues related to the checksum and such that seemed to
> cause either minor irregularities or kernel panics in the case of the
> offload request being allowed to traverse between name spaces.
>
> With this set applied I am was able to get UDP GSO traffic to pass over
> vxlan tunnels in both offloaded modes and non-offloaded modes for ixgbe and
> ixgbevf.
>
> I submitted the driver specific patches earlier as an RFC:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/?series=42477&archive=both&state=*
>
> v2: Updated patches based on feedback from Eric Dumazet
>     Split first patch into several patches based on feedback from Eric
> v3: Drop patch that was calling pskb_may_pull as it was redundant.
>     Added code to use MANGLED_0 in case of UDP checksum
>     Drop patch adding NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_L4 to list of GSO software offloads
>     Added Acked-by for patches reviewed by Willem and not changed

Just noticed I forgot to update the subject before sending out the
cover page. I updated it for this reply. If needed I will submit a v4,
but for now I will leave this out here to finish up review.

Thanks.

- Alex