On 03/30/17 at 11:07P, Somayajulu, David wrote: > Hi Hiren, > > I know this is not a new topic but a little more descriptive commit-log > > would have been nicer. Also, you should update the manpage reflecting this > > change. i.e. now it also supports software LRO when h/w LRO is disabled. > Will do. Sorry about that.
Thanks! > > > Do you know of a case where one would want to disable h/w lro and enable > > s/w lro? I guess where you want to free up nic and make cpu do more work? > I was under the impression as well, that s/w lro is moot, if h/w lro was > available, till one costumer asked for it. Not sure what the use case is. I thought this idea (like gro in linux) was popular when lro in h/w was considered buggy and couldn't correctly do batching (i.e. hide useful flags). Not sure if that's still the case. cheers, Hiren
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