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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>,
	netdev list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	dmitry@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] bnx2x: Forbid LRO on when XEN is enabled
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:11:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271603485.3679.210.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271602258.27235.200.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz>

On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 17:50 +0300, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote:
> LRO cannot be used on virtualized environment, so it is best
> to disable it on compile time in XEN kernel.
[...]

If you want to cripple your performance, I'm not going to stand in your
way, but be aware that most distribution kernels now enable CONFIG_XEN.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-18 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-18 14:50 [PATCH 11/13] bnx2x: Forbid LRO on when XEN is enabled Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-04-18 15:11 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-04-19  3:58   ` David Miller
2010-04-19 16:14     ` Stephen Hemminger

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