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Re: [RFC/RFT 3/4] mac80211: use GSO for fragmentation

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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:50:17AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> But you're right, it doesn't work this way. I'll have to think of
> something. Maybe I can rip out all the retry logic and just store an skb
> myself (like dev->gso_skb) and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY when I used that
> one and the queue got full because of it. That'll requeue a lot when
> non-gso skbs are coming in, but mind you this is not a common case, most
> of the time fragmentation will not be enabled and even when it is device
> queues should be long enough.

Yes keeping your own gso_skb sounds like a good solution.

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