netdev - Re: cxgb3: Replace LRO with GRO

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:03:08 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	divy@...lsio.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: cxgb3: Replace LRO with GRO

From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:14:03 -0800

> cxgb3: Replace LRO with GRO
> 
> This patch makes cxgb3 invoke the GRO hooks instead of LRO.  As
> GRO has a compatible external interface to LRO this is a very
> straightforward replacement.
> 
> I've kept the ioctl controls for per-queue LRO switches.  However,
> we should not encourage anyone to use these.
> 
> Because of that, I've also kept the skb construction code in
> cxgb3.  Hopefully we can phase out those per-queue switches
> and then kill this too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Acked-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>

I've added this to my net-next-2.6 tree.

I'm confident that you will work out the performance issues
with Herbert, else we'll simply revert this.
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