Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix automatic LRO/RSC settings for low latency

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:47:03 -0700

> From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
> 
> This patch added to 2.6.34:
> 
> 	commit f8d1dcaf88bddc7f282722ec1fdddbcb06a72f18
> 	Author: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> 	Date:   Tue Apr 27 01:37:20 2010 +0000
> 
> 	    ixgbe: enable extremely low latency
> 
> introduced a feature where LRO (called RSC on the hardware) was disabled
> automatically when setting rx-usecs to 0 via ethtool.  Some might not
> like the fact that LRO was disabled automatically, but I'm fine with
> that.  What I don't like is that LRO/RSC is automatically enabled when
> rx-usecs is set >0 via ethtool.
> 
> This would certainly be a problem if the device was used for forwarding
> and it was determined that the low latency wasn't needed after the
> device was already forwarding.  I played around with saving the state of
> LRO in the driver, but it just didn't seem worthwhile and would require
> a small change to dev_disable_lro() that I did not like.
> 
> This patch simply leaves LRO disabled when setting rx-usecs >0 and
> requires that the user enable it again.  An extra informational message
> will also now appear in the log so users can understand why LRO isn't
> being enabled as they expect.
> 
> Inconsistency of LRO setting first noticed by Stanislaw Gruszka.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
> CC: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> CC: stable@kernel.org
> Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Applied.