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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature



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.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

David


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