netdev - Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

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Date:   Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:25:59 +0300
From:   Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat@...learcat.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     rosenp@...il.com, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, zajec5@...il.com, nbd@....name,
        netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

On 2017-09-16 03:18, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 17:10 -0700, rosenp@...il.com wrote:
>> Ok fair enough. Will only disable GRO in the driver.
> 
> Well, do not even try.
> 
> NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES is set by core networking stack in
> register_netdevice(), ( commit 212b573f5552c60265da721ff9ce32e3462a2cdd
> )
> 
> Absolutely no driver disables GRO (excepts the ones playing with LRO)
I believe also iperf is definitely inconclusive test.
Except iperf there is lot of different workloads and configurations, 
that might have different results.