netdev - Re: net: enable dynamic lro disabling for vlans

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 10:22:49 -0700
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: net: enable dynamic lro disabling for vlans

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 13:15 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> Hey there-
> 	Noted recently that, while physical devices have lro disabled when
> attached to a bridge, vlan devices do not.

Good point.

> This is because the vlan netdev has
> no get/set flags method in its ethtool_ops struct. This series adds those
> methods as passthrough calls to the underlying physical devices, so that whe
> dev_disable_lro is called on a vlan device, the physical device underneath has
> lro properly disabled.

But I don't think this is correct.

The get_flags() result should be masked with vlan_features.  And
set_flags() shouldn't be allowed; the VLAN device should normally follow
the parent device and not the other way round.  I think
dev_disable_lro() needs to handle VLAN devices explicitly, instead.

Ben.

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