From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com
Subject: [PATCH 03/27] Documentation/networking/igb.txt: update documentation
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:16:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292048241-22026-4-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292048241-22026-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Update Intel Wired LAN igb documentation.
v2- Updated the ethtool support link, removed the LRO section and
anti-spoofing sections.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
---
Documentation/networking/igb.txt | 31 ++++---------------------------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt
index ab2d718..4a5e29c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Default Value: 0
This parameter adds support for SR-IOV. It causes the driver to spawn up to
max_vfs worth of virtual function.
+
Additional Configurations
=========================
@@ -60,9 +61,10 @@ Additional Configurations
Ethtool
-------
The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and
- diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information.
+ diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest
+ version of Ethtool can be found at:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel.
+ http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Enabling Wake on LAN* (WoL)
---------------------------
@@ -91,31 +93,6 @@ Additional Configurations
REQUIREMENTS: MSI-X support is required for Multiqueue. If MSI-X is not
found, the system will fallback to MSI or to Legacy interrupts.
- LRO
- ---
- Large Receive Offload (LRO) is a technique for increasing inbound throughput
- of high-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead. It works by
- aggregating multiple incoming packets from a single stream into a larger
- buffer before they are passed higher up the networking stack, thus reducing
- the number of packets that have to be processed. LRO combines multiple
- Ethernet frames into a single receive in the stack, thereby potentially
- decreasing CPU utilization for receives.
-
- NOTE: You need to have inet_lro enabled via either the CONFIG_INET_LRO or
- CONFIG_INET_LRO_MODULE kernel config option. Additionally, if
- CONFIG_INET_LRO_MODULE is used, the inet_lro module needs to be loaded
- before the igb driver.
-
- You can verify that the driver is using LRO by looking at these counters in
- Ethtool:
-
- lro_aggregated - count of total packets that were combined
- lro_flushed - counts the number of packets flushed out of LRO
- lro_no_desc - counts the number of times an LRO descriptor was not available
- for the LRO packet
-
- NOTE: IPv6 and UDP are not supported by LRO.
-
Support
=======
--
1.7.3.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-11 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-11 6:16 [net-next 00/27][pull-request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:16 ` [PATCH 01/27] Documentation/networking/e1000.txt: Update documentation Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:16 ` [PATCH 02/27] Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt: " Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:16 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2010-12-11 6:16 ` [PATCH 04/27] Documentation/networking/igbvf.txt: " Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:34 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <AANLkTikUqZsaSg-q+GJvRrUb4C8rFZSbBta0tyeh==Ay@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-11 19:44 ` David Miller
2010-12-11 6:16 ` [PATCH 05/27] Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt: Update ixgbe documentation Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:17 ` [PATCH 06/27] Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt: Update documentation Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:17 ` [PATCH 07/27] MAINTAINERS: Update Intel Wired LAN info Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:17 ` [PATCH 08/27] e1000: fix return value not set on error Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:17 ` Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:17 ` [PATCH 09/27] Intel Wired LAN drivers: Use static const Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-11 6:17 ` [PATCH 10/27] ixgb: Don't check for vlan group on transmit Jeff Kirsher
2010-12-13 1:00 ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-13 18:43 ` Tantilov, Emil S
2010-12-14 3:40 ` Jesse Gross
2010-12-14 18:00 ` Tantilov, Emil S
2010-12-11 19:44 ` [net-next 00/27][pull-request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates David Miller
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