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Message-Id: 
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 03:30:23 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, bcf@...gle.com,
 willemb@...gle.com, jeroendb@...gle.com, pkaligineedi@...gle.com,
 shailend@...gle.com, ziweixiao@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gve: add gve_features_check()

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:57:07 +0000 you wrote:
> It is suboptimal to attempt skb linearization from ndo_start_xmit()
> if a gso skb has pathological layout, or if host stack does not have
> access to the payload (TCP direct). Linearization of large skbs
> can also fail under memory pressure.
> 
> We should instead have an ndo_features_check() so that we can
> fallback to GSO, which is supported even for TCP direct,
> and generally much more efficient (no payload copy).
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] gve: add gve_features_check()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/18de1e517ed3

You are awesome, thank you!
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