On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:08:49PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 12:43 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

quoted

Easy.  You don't physically segment the packet until it's
transmitted.  But logically you treat each GRO/GSO packet as if it
had already been segmented.

OK, please submit some patches, because I must be blind.

Honestly it doesn't even matter.  If it's really so bad for your
qdisc, you should just call skb_segment in your qdisc directly.

My point is that even if you did that GRO with your frag_list
patch should still be a win because the stack prior to the qdisc
gets run once instead of two or three times.

Cheers,
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