Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 4 authors, 2008-06-15

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2008-05-01 11:06:40

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Kieran Mansley wrote:
As an aside, the gso_size field isn't the only one that has a slightly
different meaning depending on whether the SKB was generated by a stack
or a device.  The ip_summed field is I think another one, and would
surely need special handling by  the bridge when forwarding packets.  If
it's already doing this, there's a precedent for fixing things up there.
You would've been right about ip_summed in the past :)

As it stands I've made it specifically treat inbound/outbound
packets in the same way so this is no longer true.

As to gso_size, I think the crux of the problem is that we're
doing LRO on forwarded traffic at all.  Once you've done it
to a packet we might as well make the stack forward it since
what's done is done and forwarding it is going to be a hell
lot better than dropping it.

Cheers,
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