netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/5] Introduce NETIF_F_GRO

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Message-Id: <20171230.104535.2291382569309825655.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:45:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     michael.chan@...adcom.com
Cc:     alexander.duyck@...il.com, sd@...asysnail.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/5] Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW

From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:20:02 -0800

> I think the name GRO_HW is perfectly fine.  It is GRO aggregation done
> in hardware, and hardware providing extra information to the driver to
> setup the SKB just like GRO.  I don't know what better name to call it
> than GRO_HW.

Agreed.