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Subject[Doubt on Implict BUGs caused LRO] doubt about lro status in v3.12 of torvalds/linux.git
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Hi,

Compared to the earlier kernel version, I found that Large receive
offload(LRO) is obsolete in latest kernel, and that is verified from
other materials about Generic receive offload(GRO).

However, I also found some LRO header files and lro-related
functions referred by some drivers, and the lro-related function
definition is already removed at the same time!

TEST steps:
1. my git local db config as follow, url =
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
2. git checkout v3.12 -b 3.12
3. cd net/ipv4,
[backyes@f14 ipv4]$ cat Makefile | grep lro
obj-$(CONFIG_INET_LRO) += inet_lro.o
[backyes@f14 ipv4]$ ls inet_*
inet_connection_sock.c inet_diag.c inet_fragment.c
inet_hashtables.c inet_timewait_sock.c
[backyes@f14 ipv4]$
Here, Makefile has inet_lro.o config, while the inet_lro.c is removed.
4. lro functions referred by some drivers, as follow,
[backyes@f14 linux]$ grep "inet_lro" * -r
drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c:#include <linux/inet_lro.h>
drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c:#include <linux/inet_lro.h>
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_hw.c:#include <linux/inet_lro.h>
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_hw.h:#include <linux/inet_lro.h>
include/linux/inet_lro.h: * linux/include/linux/inet_lro.h
net/ipv4/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_INET_LRO) += inet_lro.o

so, I understand that the removal of LRO is not clean, which will
cause compiler error for some kernel config.


--
Best Regard!

Yanfei Wang


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