netdev - Re: ixgbe: Replace LRO with GRO

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Message-Id: <20090118.214958.43175041.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:49:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ixgbe: Replace LRO with GRO

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:22:49 +1100

> ixgbe: Replace LRO with GRO
> 
> This patch makes ixgbe invoke the GRO hooks instead of LRO.  As
> GRO has a compatible external interface to LRO this is a very
> straightforward replacement.
> 
> As GRO uses the napi structure to track the held packets, I've
> modified the code paths involved to pass that along.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied for 2.6.30
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