Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Nov 2015 18:57:10 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: GSO with udp_tunnel_xmit_skb |
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On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:36:53AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > Wouldn't there be some significant savings from bundling together > several UDP packets meant for the same destination, and sending those > all as one super-packet, so they don't each have to traverse the whole > networking and netfilter stack? By asking that question, it doesn't > feel as though I've come up with a new idea; is there a reason why > that isn't implemented or why (if) it was rejected?
UDP carries no ordering information so this doesn't work.
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