> 
> On 29/06/2021 20.37, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 11:18:38 -0700 Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:08 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > ack, I agree. I will fix it in v10.
> > > > Why is XDP mb incompatible with LRO? I thought that was one of the use
> > > > cases (mentioned by Willem IIRC).
> > > XDP is meant to be a per packet operation with support for TX and
> > > REDIRECT, and LRO isn't routable. So we could put together a large LRO
> > > frame but we wouldn't be able to break it apart again. If we allow
> > > that then we are going to need a ton more exception handling added to
> > > the XDP paths.
> > > 
> > > As far as GSO it would require setting many more fields in order to
> > > actually make it offloadable by any hardware.
> > It would require more work, but TSO seems to be explicitly stated
> > as what the series builds towards (in the cover letter). It's fine
> > to make choices we'd need to redo later, I guess, I'm just trying
> > to understand the why.
> 
> This is also my understanding that LRO and TSO is what this patchset is
> working towards.
> 
> Sorry, I don't agree or understand this requested change.
> 
> 

My understanding here is to use gso_size to store paged length of the
xdp multi-buffer. When converting the xdp_frame to a skb we will need
to overwrite it to support gro/lro. Is my understanding correct?

Regards,
Lorenzo