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On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 19:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> I don't know what you mean by 'have no use'.  It's enabled anyway, and I
> would expect that it's beneficial for some smaller routers.
> 

I believe vast majority of linux powered devices are more hosts,
not routers (ip_forward default value is 0 by the way)

If someone wants to tune its linux router, he probably already disables
GRO because of various issues with too big packets.

GRO adds a significant cost to forwarding path.