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From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:00:16 -0400

> If I can't figure out why LRO is so much faster in some cases, then I
> think maybe I'll just put together a patch which keeps LRO, and does
> GRO only if LRO is disabled.  Kind of ugly, but better than loosing
> 15% performance on some machines.

I refuse to apply such a patch.

Figure out this performance problem, don't work around it.