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xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature
authorPaul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Fri, 12 May 2017 08:46:29 +0000 (09:46 +0100)
committerJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Wed, 31 May 2017 21:51:36 +0000 (22:51 +0100)
commit88da897ff2be23052c05a366365e8ed1ba9606eb
treed4350a061519cd380f759b821884f21627912c3f
parent3092545f6723c4bc67740941287d04bcca19c7a9
xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature

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.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit fedbc8c132bcf836358103195d8b6df6c03d9daf)
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c