netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Introduce NETIF_F_GRO

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:34:28 +0200
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>,
        Gal Pressman <galp@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com> wrote:
> Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW feature flag and convert drivers that support
> hardware GRO to use the new flag.

Hi Michael,

Could you add more performance motivations/results? looking on your
netconf slides [1]
I see (much) better CPU utilization (slide 5) -- do you have more
numbers to share?

Or.

[1] http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2017_files/hardware_gro.pdf