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    ipv6: disable GSO on sockets hitting dst_allfrag · a34a101e
    Eric Dumazet authored
    If the allfrag feature has been set on a host route (due to an ICMPv6
    Packet Too Big received indicating a MTU of less than 1280), we hit a
    very slow behavior in TCP stack, because all big packets are dropped and
    only a retransmit timer is able to push one MSS frame every 200 ms.
    
    One way to handle this is to disable GSO on the socket the first time a
    super packet is dropped. Adding a specific dst_allfrag() in the fast
    path is probably overkill since the dst_allfrag() case almost never
    happen.
    
    Result on netperf TCP_STREAM, one flow :
    
    Before : 60 kbit/sec
    After : 1.6 Gbit/sec
    Reported-by: default avatarTore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarTore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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