On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:05:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed,  4 Jun 2014 08:53:17 +0900
> 
> > If an MPLS packet requires segmentation then use mpls_features
> > to determine if the software implementation should be used.
> > 
> > As no driver advertises MPLS GSO segmentation this will always be
> > the case.
> > 
> > I had not noticed that this was necessary before as software MPLS GSO
> > segmentation was already being used in my test environment. I believe that
> > the reason for that is the skbs in question always had fragments and the
> > driver I used does not advertise NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (which seems to be the
> > case for most drivers). Thus software segmentation was activated by
> > skb_gso_ok().
> > 
> > This introduces the overhead of an extra call to skb_network_protocol()
> > in the case where where CONFIG_NET_MPLS_GSO is set and
> > skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE.
> > 
> > Thanks to Jesse Gross for prompting me to investigate this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <[email protected]>
> 
> Applied to net-next, thanks Simon.

Thanks!
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