netdev - Re: To GRO or not to GRO...

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Message-Id: <152341286090326@web67.yandex.ru>
Date:	Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:18:46 +0400
From:	"\"Oleg A. Arkhangelsky\"" <sysoleg@...dex.ru>
To:	Richard Scobie <richard@...ce.co.nz>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: To GRO or not to GRO...

03.10.2010, 03:17, "Richard Scobie" <richard@...ce.co.nz>:

> In the README for ixgbe-2.1.4, is says:
>
> " Disable GRO when routing/bridging
>    ---------------------------------
>    Due to a known kernel issue, GRO must be turned off when
> routing/bridging.
>    GRO can be turned off via ethtool."
>

This information is true for LRO, not GRO.

I believe that this appeared when ixgbe was converted from LRO
to GRO and all occurrences of LRO was blindly replaced by GRO
everywhere.

--
wbr, Oleg.
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