On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:34:02AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] > > GRO is a specific software implementation of LRO that preserves enough > > information that it is safe to bridge/forward the resulting skb. The > > original packets can be reconstructed on transmit (usually through TSO, > > otherwise through GSO). > > Thanks I'd been wondering if that was the case. > > Out of interest, does it reconstruct the exact original packets or just > one of the possible valid segmentations of the LRO SKB? [...]
It reconstructs the exact same packets, modulo header fields that are supposed to be modified on forwarding. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110105151410.gj3...@decadent.org.uk