On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:57:10AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Then change TBF to use skb_gso_segment?  Be careful, the fact that
> > 
> > That doesn't help because it wants to interleave packets
> > from different streams to get everything fair and smooth. The only 
> > good way to handle that is to split it up and the simplest way to do 
> > this is to just tell TCP to not do GSO in the first place.
> 
> Actually if we're going to do this I'd prefer you to call skb_gso_segment
> instead because that lets us at least bypass netfilter which is one of
> the key benefits of software GSO.

Ok. The only problem I see right now is that skb_segment() seems to overuse
GFP_ATOMIC which would make it unreliable, but that is something that can be 
fixed.

-Andi
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