On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:29:08PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote:
> >  It seems to me that some changes are needed to the tunneling core code,
> >  in particular handle_offloads(), to allow GSO skbs to be passed
> >  unsegmented to STT. Perhaps a new mutable->flags flag is in order?
> 
> I agree that there definitely needs to be additional information given
> to the tunneling core to enable it to decide whether or not to emulate
> offloads.  However, I think the information belongs in tnl_ops instead
> of mutable->flags since it is shared by all tunnels of a given type.

Thanks, I will look into that.

At this point I am thinking of a single flag to indicate that
the protocol handler is able to handle GSO skbs. I'll see about preparing
a patch to implement that. But perhaps a single flag is insufficient
for some cases?
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