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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Peter Samuelson <psamuelson@efolder.net>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgoerzen@efolder.net
Subject: Re: TCP stalls with 802.3ad + bridge + kvm guest
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:28:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120811112840.0dc9ba71@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120804224511.GU17572@p12n.org>

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 17:45:11 -0500
Peter Samuelson <psamuelson@efolder.net> wrote:

> 
> > [Jesse Brandeburg]
> > > try
> > > # ethtool -K ethx tso off gso off lro off
> 
> Specifically, 'lro off' is the trick.  The others don't have a
> noticeable effect.  Now I can get 70 MB/s or better most of the time,
> in either direction.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Peter

When device is added to bridge, the bridge code does ask the device
to turn LRO off (automatically). Unfortunately some device drivers are
broken.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-11 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27 18:38 TCP stalls with 802.3ad + bridge + kvm guest Peter Samuelson
2012-07-27 20:00 ` Jay Vosburgh
2012-07-31 14:07   ` Peter Samuelson
2012-08-01 14:41   ` Peter Samuelson
2012-08-04  5:04     ` Jesse Brandeburg
2012-08-04 16:22       ` Peter Samuelson
2012-08-04 18:07         ` Sławek Janecki
2012-08-04 19:21           ` Sławek Janecki
2012-08-04 22:45         ` Peter Samuelson
2012-08-11 18:28           ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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