netdev - Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 09/10] net: add gso_ipv4_max_size and gro_ipv4_max

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Message-ID: <0601c53b3dc178293e05d87f75f481367ff4fd47.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:59:34 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>,
        Aaron Conole <aconole@...hat.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 09/10] net: add gso_ipv4_max_size and
 gro_ipv4_max_size per device

On Sat, 2023-01-28 at 10:58 -0500, Xin Long wrote:
> This patch introduces gso_ipv4_max_size and gro_ipv4_max_size
> per device and adds netlink attributes for them, so that IPV4
> BIG TCP can be guarded by a separate tunable in the next patch.
> 
> To not break the old application using "gso/gro_max_size" for
> IPv4 GSO packets, this patch updates "gso/gro_ipv4_max_size"
> in netif_set_gso/gro_max_size() if the new size isn't greater
> than GSO_LEGACY_MAX_SIZE, so that nothing will change even if
> userspace doesn't realize the new netlink attributes.

Not a big deal, but I think it would be nice to include the pahole info
showing where the new fields are located and why that are good
locations.

No need to send a new version for just for the above, unless Eric asks
otherwise ;)

Cheers,

Paolo