From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com,
kmansley@solarflare.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
shemminger@vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Disable LRO on devices that are forwarding
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:21:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619.162145.212568056.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080619180735.GT5350@solarflare.com>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:07:36 +0100
> Large Receive Offload (LRO) is only appropriate for packets that are
> destined for the host, and should be disabled if received packets may be
> forwarded. It can also confuse the GSO on output.
>
> Add dev_disable_lro() function which uses the appropriate ethtool ops to
> disable LRO if enabled.
>
> Add calls to dev_disable_lro() in br_add_if() and functions that enable
> IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Looks good, applied to net-next-2.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-19 18:44 [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs [2nd try] Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 18:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Disable LRO on devices that are forwarding Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 23:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-06-20 11:11 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-20 11:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-20 14:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-19 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: Discard and warn about LRO'd skbs received for forwarding Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 21:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-19 22:29 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-06-19 22:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 23:27 ` David Miller
2008-06-19 21:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs [2nd try] Stephen Hemminger
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