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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:16:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mpatocka@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: crash with bridge and inconsistent handling of NETDEV_TX_OK

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:14:34 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:10:04 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>> I see, but GRO is turned off on my interfaces, according to ethtool.
> 
> GRO is just a flag bit, so it's possible that if your kernel is too
> old ethtool will always show that it's off.

Actually, looking back at your original report, are you confusing
"large-receive-offload" as reported by ethtool with GRO?

They are completely seperate things.

"large-receive-offload" is LRO, whereas GRO is something done
in software and something entirely different.
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