Thread (10 messages) flat view 10 messages, 5 authors, 2017-09-16

Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

From: <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-15 23:55:31

you're absolutely correct. will send an updated version shortly.

On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 16:14 -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Rosen Penev <redacted>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:22:18 -0700
quoted
On a linksys E1200v1 (actually a crossflashed E1000v2), the
offloading features give no measurable benefit to speed or latency.
Furthermore, disabling GRO actually improves iperf performance by a
whoppimg 3mbps. Results:
 ...
quoted
-     net_dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM |
NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM;
quoted
+     net_dev->features &= NETIF_F_GRO;
      net_dev->hw_features = net_dev->features;
This doesn't disable GRO.
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