netdev - Re: LRO restructuring?

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Message-ID: <20090218114655.46538a82@extreme>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:46:55 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	James Huang <jamesclhuang@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LRO restructuring?

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:25:49 +0000 (UTC)
James Huang <jamesclhuang@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Herbert,
> 
>     Any idea when this LRO restructuring work will be done? 
> Making LRO available even when ip forwarding is enabled will significantly 
> improve performace of network appliances in the data path.  

LRO with ip forwarding is a bad idea since it violates the end-to-end
principle. It might even be a DO NOT in host requirements RFC.
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