From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bphilips@suse.de,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bruce.w.allan@intel.com,
jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bhutchings@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] net: enable GRO by default for vlan devices
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:38:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100915.233851.85414928.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100915232125.4430a421@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:21:25 -0700
> I think it is more complex than that. GRO is tied to NAPI,
> and bridge/bond don't use NAPI directly. They use netif_rx() for receiving
> because layered drivers can't directly up call because of possible
> issues with stack depth.
>
> To get GRO working for netif_rx case,
> the logic in process_backlog would have to change.
> But this queue is processing packets from multiple devices so
> it is not clear if GRO could be used.
Bonding's un-layering on RX is done in the normal netif_receive_skb()
control flow.
And bridging only uses netif_rx for multicast replication.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 1:50 [PATCH] ixgbe: add GRO to vlan_features Brandon Philips
2010-09-15 4:35 ` David Miller
2010-09-15 16:37 ` [PATCH] vlan: enable GRO if real_dev supports it Brandon Philips
2010-09-15 17:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-15 17:14 ` David Miller
2010-09-15 17:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-15 17:29 ` David Miller
2010-09-15 19:24 ` [PATCH] net: enable GRO by default for vlan devices Brandon Philips
2010-09-15 22:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-15 22:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-16 1:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-16 5:51 ` [E1000-devel] " David Miller
2010-09-16 6:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-16 6:38 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-16 6:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-16 8:11 ` [PATCH] ethtool: change ethtool_set_gro() to use ethtool_op_get_rx_csum Eric Dumazet
2010-09-17 18:57 ` David Miller
2010-09-17 19:25 ` [PATCH] bonding: enable gro by default Eric Dumazet
2010-09-17 23:54 ` David Miller
2010-09-16 5:32 ` [PATCH] net: enable GRO by default for vlan devices David Miller
2010-09-15 18:59 ` [PATCH] vlan: enable GRO if real_dev supports it Brandon Philips
2010-09-15 16:38 ` [PATCH] ixgbe: add GRO to vlan_features Brandon Philips
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