From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:17:47 -0800
> This pair of patchesimproves the performance when running > containers in an environment where underlying device has lower > GSO maximum (such as Azure). > > With containers a veth pair is created and one end is attached > to the bridge device. The bridge device correctly reports > computes GSO parameters that are the minimum of the lower devices. > > The problem is that the other end of the veth device (in container) > reports the full GSO size. This patch propogates the upper > (bridge device) parameters to the other end of the veth device. > > Please consider it as alternative to the sysfs GSO changes. I like this approach a lot, please resubmit this formally.
