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Re: [RFC v2 0/3] add TSO / A-MSDU TX for iwlwifi

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On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 15:07 +0000, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:

> I'll look at it.
> I was almost starting to implement that but then I thought with another
> (good?) reason to use LSO. LSO gives me the guarantee that the packet is
> directed to one peer, which might not be the case with xmit_more since
> we have one Qdisc for several clients in case we are in AP mode.
> Building an A-MSDU for several clients is not possible, at least not for
> several client in the L2 (different MAC addresses).
> LSO avoids this problem completely.

Then, simply calling skb_gso_segment() from the driver might be enough,
and less work for you.

This would even support TSO on IPv6

segs = skb_gso_segment(skb, tp->dev->features &
                            ~(NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6));




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