netdev - Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:54:50 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        zajec5@...il.com, nbd@....name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

On September 15, 2017 3:22:18 PM PDT, Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com> wrote:
>On a linksys E1200v1 (actually a crossflashed E1000v2), the offloading
>features give no measurable benefit to speed or latency. Furthermore,
>disabling GRO actually improves iperf performance by a whoppimg 3mbps.

Do you have a way to generate gigabit tests and see what results you are getting? We probably are not going to see a 30% improvement just by extrapolation.

-- 
Florian