netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: enable SG/TSO on selected chip versions per default

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Message-ID: <20241011085748.GC66815@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:57:48 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: enable SG/TSO on selected chip versions
 per default

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:58:02PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Due to problem reports in the past SG and TSO/TSO6 are disabled per
> default. It's not fully clear which chip versions are affected, so we
> may impact also users of unaffected chip versions, unless they know
> how to use ethtool for enabling SG/TSO/TSO6.
> Vendor drivers r8168/r8125 enable SG/TSO/TSO6 for selected chip
> versions per default, I'd interpret this as confirmation that these
> chip versions are unaffected. So let's do the same here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>