netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/8] vxlan: allow L4 GRO passthrough

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Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:14:40 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/8] vxlan: allow L4 GRO passthrough

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:30 AM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> When passing up an UDP GSO packet with L4 aggregation, there is
> no need to segment it at the vxlan level. We can propagate the
> packet untouched and let it be segmented later, if needed.
>
> Introduce an helper to allow let the UDP socket to accept any
> L4 aggregation and use it in the vxlan driver.
>
> v1 -> v2:
>  - updated to use the newly introduced UDP socket 'accept*' fields
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>