From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] ibmvnic: Enable SG and TSO feature support Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:20:47 +0100 (WEST) Message-ID: <20171019.132047.246984013119139524.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1508261816-3145-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:48932 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751937AbdJSMUw (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:20:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1508261816-3145-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Thomas Falcon Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:36:53 -0500 > This patch set is fairly straightforward. The first patch enables > scatter-gather support in the ibmvnic driver. The following patch > then enables the TCP Segmentation offload feature. The final patch > allows users to enable or disable net device features using ethtool. > > Enabling SG and TSO grants a large increase in throughput with TX > speed increasing from 1Gb/s to 9Gb/s in our initial test runs. Series applied.