On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 15:00 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> I can understand that, but that raises two questions in my mind:
> 
> 1)  Doesn't that make all the statistical manipulation for netem wrong?  That 
> is
> to say, if netem drops 5% of packets, and it happens to drop a GSO packet, its
> actually dropping several, instead of the single one required.


Please take a look at tbf_segment(), where you can find a proper way to
handle this.

Note that for the case q->corrupt is 0, we definitely do not want to
segment TSO packets.

> 2) How are you getting netem to work with GSO at all?  The warning is 
> triggered
> for me on every GSO packet, which I think would impact throughput :)

I mostly use netem to add delays and drops.
I never had this bug, since q->corrupt = 0



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