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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com,
	Kieran Mansley <kmansley@solarflare.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Disable LRO on devices that are forwarding
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:21:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prqc9ogb.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080619180735.GT5350@solarflare.com> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:07:36 +0100")

Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> writes:

> Large Receive Offload (LRO) is only appropriate for packets that are
> destined for the host, and should be disabled if received packets may be
> forwarded.  It can also confuse the GSO on output.
>
> Add dev_disable_lro() function which uses the appropriate ethtool ops to
> disable LRO if enabled.
>
> Add calls to dev_disable_lro() in br_add_if() and functions that enable
> IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding.

It might be a good idea to add a printk so that the user knows why
the device suddenly goes slower.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-20 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19 18:44 [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs [2nd try] Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 18:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Disable LRO on devices that are forwarding Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 23:21   ` David Miller
2008-06-20 11:11   ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-20 11:17     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-20 14:21   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-06-19 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: Discard and warn about LRO'd skbs received for forwarding Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 21:50   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-19 22:29     ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-06-19 22:42     ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-19 23:27   ` David Miller
2008-06-19 21:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs [2nd try] Stephen Hemminger

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