Re: Why is LRO off by default on ixgbe?
From: Stephen Hemminger <hidden>
Date: 2009-09-23 16:54:00
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:29:59 -0700 Ben Greear [off-list ref] wrote:
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
LRO is turned off if bridging or routing because of End to End requirements.