netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bnx2x: add support for ndo_ll

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:15:43 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bnx2x: add support for ndo_ll_poll

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 10:45 +0000, Dmitry Kravkov wrote:

> > Ideally, we could keep a counter of enabled LLS sockets, to
> > automatically switch off/on GRO, but in net/core, not in every driver.
> 
> Since we have GRO in FW it will be hard to disable/enable it on the fly, probably better  to return LL_FLUSH_FAILED when GRO is enabled?

Yes, assuming GRO in FW means latencies ?

(If we receive a frame, FW has to wait a bit for the following frames to
eventually aggregate them)

I thought FW did LRO part on bnx2x, and GRO was the software thing (in
networking core, not in the bnx2x drivre)



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