netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs

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Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 12:08:48 +0100
From:	Kieran Mansley <kmansley@...arflare.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, davem@...emloft.net,
	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 12:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I was going to raise the virtualisation issue because Kieran has been
> in contact with XenSource over this and they believed LRO was not a
> problem in Xen.  So long as the bridges in dom0 each connect a single
> physical interface to other domains running paravirtualised Linux, this
> is probably true. 

Yes, everything works fine in that case.  It's only when LRO packets are
forwarded to another physical interface that things go wrong.  

Kieran


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