Re: [PATCH] sky2: don't do GRO on second port

Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02T09:18:48Z

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:55:54PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:09:00 +0200
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:51:17AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > >>
> > >> There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
> > >> What?
> > >>
> > >> Don't cross the GRO streams.
> > >> Why?
> > >>
> > >> It would be bad.
> > >> I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
> > >>
> > >> Try to imagine all the Internet as you know it stopping instantaneously
> > >> and every bit in every packet swapping at the speed of light.
> > >> Total packet reordering.
> > >> Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Hubert
> > >
> > > Looks really bad to me, so... let's forget it! ;-) (At least until
> > > next next.)
>
> The patch wasn't that bad, but the movie quote probably confused you.

Yes, I was equally confused by both of them. Good to know it's only
fiction... ;-)

Jarek P.