netdev - Re: Getting physical packet counts with LRO enabled with ixgbe?

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:09:06 -0700
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting physical packet counts with LRO enabled with ixgbe?

Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> wrote:
>
>> Well if you did GRO instead of LRO then none of this would matter :)
> 
> I get aggregate 18Gbps with LRO v/s 12Gbps without, so it's very much a useful feature
> for me.

Sorry we are each talking about different things.  The performance
difference you observed is software GRO vs. hardware LRO.  What I
was talking about above is switching the Intel hardware to do GRO
instead of LRO.

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