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

On Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:42:59 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:

Precomputing in the caller, as the current series does, is fine too,
if some caller-specific context is needed.

I'm mostly concerned about duplicating logic and the number of
functions touched in this series. But skb_segment itself is too
complex already, so preferable to minimize complication there.
(The reuse of partial for this purpose is very neat.)

If only validate_xmit_skb allows this, because all other segmentation
callers do want full segmentation (not checked, but I can believe
that), the current approach is fine. If we can clean up the repeated
tests and simplify the code in general.

OK, I will try to simplify the code and reduce the hot path cost in v3.
By the way, changing the signature of __skb_gso_segment() brings three
extra call site changes, and that is a trade-off.  __skb_gso_segment() and
skb_gso_segment() already exist, and adding another function like
skb_gso_segment_max_segs() would make the call chain confusing.