Re: [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: Limit number of segments generated by GSO per skb

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 15:50 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:20:57 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:46 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:35:52 +0100
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 19:31 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > >> Or you could introduce a new wk->sk_gso_max_segments, that your sfc
> > > >> driver sets to whatever limit ?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, that's another option.
> > > 
> > > This is how I want this handled.
> > 
> > How should that be applied in the GRO-forwarding case?
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> Why not make max_frags a property of the device?
[...]

This has nothing to do with the number of input fragments.  But I think
you're on the right track - this can be checked in netif_skb_features()
or something like that.

Ben.

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