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

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:56:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, rosenp@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        zajec5@...il.com, nbd@....name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:03:30 -0700

> On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 15:54 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> +1
> 
> It seems silly to remove NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM |
> NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM from dev->features, yet leave the dead-code in the
> driver to handle these features.
> 
> And of course GRO was not removed, meaning the bench results were non
> conclusive.

My sentiments exactly, I think this is a completely unwise change.