From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:37:53 +1100 > What I wanted to do if I ever get enough time to work on this is > to record the transport header length in a gso_hlen field so we > can fix this properly. > > We currently have a useless gso_segs field that only has one or > two users that don't even need it. We could easily get rid of it > and use that space for gso_hlen instead. > > The gso_hlen field only needs to be filled in at the few spots > that generate GSO packets, i.e., > > 1) TCP > 2) Virt backends like tun.c > 3) GRO Yep, that's good idea. And even if we needed to add one more u32 to skb_shared_info() that's still sort-of "free" because of SLAB slack space. I'll look into doing this. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
