On 30/10/2020 15:49, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 9:39 PM Edward Cree <ec...@solarflare.com> wrote:
>> +                             ESF_GZ_TX_TSO_ED_OUTER_UDP_LEN, encap && 
>> !gso_partial,
> 
> This is a boolean field to signal whether the NIC needs to fix up the
> udp length field ?
Yes.

> Which in the case of GSO_PARTIAL has already been resolved by the gso
> layer (in __skb_udp_tunnel_segment).
Indeed.

> Just curious, is this ever expected to be true? Not based on current
> advertised features, right?
As I mentioned in the patch description and cover letter, I'm not
 entirely certain.  I don't _think_ the stack will ever give us an
 encap skb without GSO_PARTIAL with the features we've advertised,
 but since the hardware supports it I thought it better to handle
 that case anyway, just in case I'm mistaken.

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