Subject: Re: [PATCH] gso: Handle Trans-Ether-Bridging protocol in skb_network_protocol()

From: PJ Waskiewicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 00:42:49 -0700

On 5/7/2013 11:41 PM, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> Rather than having logic to calculate inner protocol in every
> tunnel gso handler move it to gso code. This simplifies code.

Moving code that isn't used on a regular basis to hotpath for most 
networking to simplify code isn't always a good thing.

Have you run tests on non-tunneled streams using GSO to make sure there 
isn't an adverse impact to performance due to the new, untaken branch?

-PJ