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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next 0/3] dev_disable_lro() improvements for stacked devices
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 09:21:30AM +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
>Large receive offloading is known to cause problems if received packets
>are passed to other host. Therefore the kernel disables it by calling
>dev_disable_lro() whenever a network device is enslaved in a bridge or
>forwarding is enabled for it (or globally). For virtual devices we need
>to disable LRO on the underlying physical device (which is actually
>receiving the packets).
>
>Current dev_disable_lro() code handles this propagation for a vlan
>(including 802.1ad nested vlan), macvlan or a vlan on top of a macvlan.
>This patch adds LRO disabling propagation for
>
> - macvlan on top of a vlan or any stacked combination of those
> - bonding
> - teaming

All of these drivers use the netdev_upper and friends, so why not make it
generic with netdev_for_each_all_lower() in dev_disable_lro()?

>
>In the bonding and teaming case, it is necessary to disable LRO not only
>on slaves when dev_disable_lro() is called but also on any slave (port)
>added later.
>
>Michal Kubecek (3):
> net: handle more general stacking in dev_disable_lro()
> team: add helper to check if device is a team master
> net: propagate LRO disabling to bond and team slaves
>
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 3 +++
> drivers/net/team/team.c | 6 +++++-
> include/linux/netdevice.h | 7 +++++++
> net/core/dev.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
>--
>1.8.4.5
>


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