Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net: gso: support bounded TCP segmentation

Wang Zhan wrote:

On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:07:09 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:

quoted

Somewhat tangential, but an entirely different practical approach
could be to disable BIG-TCP when such a patch from BIG-TCP capable to
non-capable device is encountered.

That means a single device in the topology which does not support BIG TCP
forces every other device to turn BIG TCP off, to avoid the degradation.
So with mixed devices and a dynamic topology, BIG TCP cannot be enabled at all.

True. A question is how likely such a scenario with mixed devices is.
I.e., is it worth the code complexity.