From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:14:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1475573358-32414-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> <1475573358-32414-3-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wei Liu To: Paul Durrant , , Return-path: Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:46440 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753163AbcJDKOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2016 06:14:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1475573358-32414-3-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/10/16 10:29, Paul Durrant wrote: > As far as I am aware only very old Windows network frontends make use of > this style of passing GSO packets from backend to frontend. These > frontends can easily be replaced by the freely available Xen Project > Windows PV network frontend, which uses the 'default' mechanism for > passing GSO packets, which is also used by all Linux frontends. > > NOTE: Removal of this feature will not cause breakage in old Windows > frontends. They simply will no longer receive GSO packets - the > packets instead being fragmented in the backend. Reviewed-by: David Vrabel David