On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 2:48 PM Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> wrote: > This patchset adds support to do GRO/GSO by chaining packets > of the same flow at the SKB frag_list pointer. This avoids > the overhead to merge payloads into one big packet, and > on the other end, if GSO is needed it avoids the overhead > of splitting the big packet back to the native form. > > Patch 1 Enables UDP GRO by default. > > Patch 2 adds a netdev feature flag to enable listifyed GRO, > this implements one of the configuration options discussed > at netconf 2019. [..]
The slide say that linked packets travel together though the stack. This sounds somehow similar to the approach suggested by Ed for skb lists. I wonder what we can say on cases where each of the approaches would function better. Or.
