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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.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
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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 ?