netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3 0/2] macvlan: disable LRO on lowerdev instead of a macvlan

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Date:	Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:56:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mkubecek@...e.cz
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, vyasevich@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/2] macvlan: disable LRO on lowerdev instead of
 a macvlan

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:18:30 +0100 (CET)

> A customer of ours encountered a problem with LRO on an ixgbe network
> card. Analysis showed that it was a known conflict of forwarding and LRO
> but the forwarding was enabled in an LXC container where only a macvlan
> was, not the ethernet device itself.
> 
> I believe the solution is exactly the same as what we do for "normal"
> (802.1q) VLAN devices: if dev_disable_lro() is called for such device,
> LRO is disabled on the underlying "real" device instead.
> 
> v2: adapt to changes merged from net-next
> 
> v3: use BUG() in macvlan_dev_real_dev() if compiled without macvlan

Series applied, thanks Michal.
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