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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:12:53 +0100

> I'm not sure that's a good idea.  If current chips can't handle ipv6
> lro there is no way to actually test it and the code will surely bitrot.

Christoph, you can do LRO pretty much completely in software.