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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Update netdev_alloc_frag to work more efficiently with TCP and GRO
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:41:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340217693.4604.1576.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE20511.4000206@intel.com>

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:14 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> Actually I think I just realized what the difference is.  I was looking
> at things with LRO disabled.  With LRO enabled our hardware RSC feature
> kind of defeats the whole point of the GRO or TCP coalescing anyway
> since it will stuff 16 fragments into a single packet before we even
> hand the packet off to the stack.

I noticed LRO was now 'off' by default on ixgbe (net-next tree), I am
pretty sure it was 'on' some months ago ?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-20  0:43 [PATCH] net: Update netdev_alloc_frag to work more efficiently with TCP and GRO Alexander Duyck
2012-06-20  1:49 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-20  5:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  8:17   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  8:44     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20  9:04       ` David Miller
2012-06-20  9:14         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-20 13:21     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-21  4:07       ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-21  5:07         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-22 12:33           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-23  0:17             ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-29 23:04             ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-30  8:39               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-21  5:56     ` David Miller
2012-06-20 16:30   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-20 17:14     ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-20 18:41       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-06-20 20:10         ` Alexander Duyck

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