Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: net_test: add tests for bounded GSO segmentation

Wang Zhan wrote:

On Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:59:54 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:

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+	GSO_TEST_BOUNDED,
+	GSO_TEST_BOUNDED_MULTI,
+	GSO_TEST_BOUNDED_ONE_MSS,

nit: bound is not a helpful name for this feature.

The default segments to a stream of skbs of MSS 1, so segmenting to
a stream of skbs larger MSS to me is not bounding. Quite the opposite.

Not a comment only about this test patch.

Perhaps partial or re-segmentation better captures it.

Agreed.  I think re-segmentation is descriptive enough.  Partial is
already for NETIF_F_GSO_PARTIAL.

Come to think of it, that may have always been the intention of partial?
Segment, but not yet fully.

Technically this would more be pre-segment than resegment.

Anyway, I don't mean to bikeshed this and don't have a better name.
Either will do.
 

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+	{
+		/*
+		 * One MSS per skb is what the unbounded path produces, so a
+		 * bound of a single segment must not change the output.
+		 */

so setting max_segs = 0 is equivalent to setting max_segs = 1.

Right.  The default is one MSS per skb, so 0 and 1 behave the same.