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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Why is LRO off by default on ixgbe?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:29:59 -0700
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I just noticed that enabling LRO on ixgbe lets me reach about 9Gbps receive on two
NICs concurrently in an NFS test, where I was only getting about 6Gbps w/out it (1500 MTU).

Why is LRO disabled by default?

Thanks,
Ben
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