From: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:53:42 -0700
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> From: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> >> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:08:49 -0700 >> >>> Assuming that the TCP stack generates large TSO frames on transmit >>> (which could be the local stack; something sent by a VM; or packets >>> received, coalesced by GRO and then encapsulated by STT) then you can >>> just prepend the STT header (possibly slightly adjusting things like >>> requested MSS, number of segments, etc. slightly). After that it's >>> possible to just output the resulting frame through the IP stack like >>> all tunnels do today. >> >> Which seems to potentially suggest a stronger intergration of the STT >> tunnel transmit path into our IP stack rather than the approach Simon >> is taking > > Did you have something in mind? A normal bonafide tunnel netdevice driver like GRE instead of the openvswitch approach Simon is using. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
