On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 05:27:05PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> For some reason on Armada 3720 boards (EspressoBin and Turris Mox) the
> networking driver behaves weirdly when using napi_gro_receive.
>
> For example downloading a big file from a local network (low ping) is
> fast, but when downloading from a remote server (higher ping), the
> download speed is at first high but drops rapidly to almost nothing or
> absolutely nothing.
>
> This is fixed when using netif_receive_skb instead of napi_gro_receive.
Before doing this, we should really understand what is going on. It is
probably just a driver bug which needs fixing. And GRO should be good
for performance, so we do want to use it, if possible.
Andrew
