netdev - Re: Why is LRO off by default on ixgbe?

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Message-ID: <20090925213727.GA3291@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:37:27 -0700
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is LRO off by default on ixgbe?

Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> wrote:
>
> Ok.  It seems GRO was enabled the whole time, but LRO is what gave me the
> extra performance boost.
> 
> In this particular case, I'm not actually routing, though I do have ip-forward
> enabled, so I guess LRO will be OK as long as I'm careful...

What? A driver is either GRO or LRO, it can't be both.  What
kernel version was this?

Thanks,
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