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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt index d47480b61ac6..23a8dd91a9ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt @@ -153,8 +153,15 @@ To signal this, gso_size is set to the special value GSO_BY_FRAGS. Therefore, any code in the core networking stack must be aware of the possibility that gso_size will be GSO_BY_FRAGS and handle that case -appropriately. (For size checks, the skb_gso_validate_*_len family of -helpers do this automatically.) +appropriately. + +There are a couple of helpers to make this easier: + + - For size checks, the skb_gso_validate_*_len family of helpers correctly + considers GSO_BY_FRAGS. + + - For manipulating packets, skb_increase_gso_size and skb_decrease_gso_size + will check for GSO_BY_FRAGS and WARN if asked to manipulate these skbs. This also affects drivers with the NETIF_F_FRAGLIST & NETIF_F_GSO_SCTP bits set. Note also that NETIF_F_GSO_SCTP is included in NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE. |