From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mkubecek@suse.cz
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net,
john.r.fastabend@intel.com, vyasevich@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/2] macvlan: disable LRO on lowerdev instead of a macvlan
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:56:37 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131115.175637.920595518200727670.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1384492269.git.mkubecek@suse.cz>
From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:18:30 +0100 (CET)
> A customer of ours encountered a problem with LRO on an ixgbe network
> card. Analysis showed that it was a known conflict of forwarding and LRO
> but the forwarding was enabled in an LXC container where only a macvlan
> was, not the ethernet device itself.
>
> I believe the solution is exactly the same as what we do for "normal"
> (802.1q) VLAN devices: if dev_disable_lro() is called for such device,
> LRO is disabled on the underlying "real" device instead.
>
> v2: adapt to changes merged from net-next
>
> v3: use BUG() in macvlan_dev_real_dev() if compiled without macvlan
Series applied, thanks Michal.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-15 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-15 5:18 [PATCH net v3 0/2] macvlan: disable LRO on lowerdev instead of a macvlan Michal Kubecek
2013-11-15 5:18 ` [PATCH net v3 1/2] macvlan: introduce macvlan_dev_real_dev() helper function Michal Kubecek
2013-11-15 5:18 ` [PATCH net v3 2/2] macvlan: disable LRO on lower device instead of macvlan Michal Kubecek
2013-11-15 22:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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