Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:58:42 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE vs NETIF_F_GSO |
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On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:31:59AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > So far implementing (3) is failing miserably. Is there anything wrong > with my general idea that might make this a priori impossible? For > example, will udp_tunnel_xmit_skb not accept super-packets? Or, am I > just not making use of whatever nice convenience functions are > available for constructing super-packets, and thus am doing something > wrong?
I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with your idea. After all what you're describing is the basis of GSO, i.e., letting data stay in the form of super-packets for as long as we can.
Of course there's going to be a lot of niggly bits that you'll have to sort out to get it to work.
Good luck, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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