Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/ipoib: fix GRO merge failure for IPoIB originated TCP streams

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Roland Dreier [off-list ref] wrote:

But is this general fix so difficult that we can't just do the right thing?

no one said its so difficult, its just not trivial, b/c of the many
use cases over which the GRO logic plays... lets see if the network
folks come with some idea/directive for us.

Realistically if we add this hack to ipoib then we'll have that ugly
memset in our fast path forever.

forever, why? once a clever fix is found, we can revert that memset, etc.

Or.
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