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From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: xennet: skb rides the rocket: 20 slots
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:09:24 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> Without GSO I don't think you should be seeing packets larger than the MTU,
> which would normally be either ~1500 or ~9000 and fit easily within any
> sensible negotiation for the max frags. I don't think you should worry unduly
> about this case.
> 

A stack could still send down a packet with one byte per frag though, right? A copy-and-coalesce path would still be needed in this case.

  Paul