From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
John <john.phillips5@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gro: Make GRO aware of lightweight tunnels.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 03:31:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160121023159.GD29853@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEh+42g+bc-+=qjZ=Ha8580aZf5=o+2CS6pM1m-gKu47sbPTxw@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/20/16 at 05:47pm, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Just to merge the two threads together, all of protocols that would be
> affected by this also have "normal" GRO handlers that will run when
> the packet is first received. There's no argument that that is
> preferable if it is available. However, GRO cells do provide a
> performance benefit in other situations so it would be nice to avoid
> disabling it if possible.
I missed this thread when I replied to the other one.
What are these situations? It seems like there are specific
scenarios where this helps. Is it varying TLVs in the encap header
for otherwise meregable inner headers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-21 0:27 [PATCH net] gro: Make GRO aware of lightweight tunnels Jesse Gross
2016-01-21 0:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-21 1:47 ` Jesse Gross
2016-01-21 2:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-21 2:31 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2016-01-21 2:52 ` Jesse Gross
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