Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:51:23 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc1] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:39:23 -0700
> Why not use NETIF_F_LRO and ethtool to control LRO support?
In fact, you must, in order to handle bridging and routing correctly.
Bridging and routing is illegal with LRO enabled, so the kernel automatically issues the necessary ethtool commands to disable LRO in the relevant devices.
Therefore you must support the ethtool LRO operation in order to support LRO at all.
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