From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:11:56 -0800
> I thought about a TLV implementation but there is no base support in > the kernel for it. It would be great if you could implement the TLV > loop. Honestly, though, I'm still very leery of the processing > overhead associated with TLVs in the critical data path. In the > worst case of RCO we would need to fish for the RCO option though > the TLV list in both the GRO and normal path for each packet. If the > TLV lists are long then performance may be negatively affected > mitigating the value of RCO (needs to be measured). Open ended TLVs are to me likened to an attack vector waiting to happen, for the reasons Tom listed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
