On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 11:13 +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 05:59:06AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Here at Google, we increased MAX_SKB_FRAGS, but this is a rather > > intrusive change to be upstreamed :( > > I've played here with MAX_SKB_FRAGS too, but it seems to > be device specific how many page fragments it can handle. > I wonder if we could increase MAX_SKB_FRAGS at the GRO > layer and let GSO split this buffer in something that > the transmitting device can handle? Yes, the same principle would apply. Split a GRO packet into X TSO packets with whatever number of frags. bnx2x has to linearize some skbs having more than 13 frags.
