There are many cases where this feature does not improve performance or even reduces it. See the following discussion for example perf numbers: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/298345
CC: Tom Herbert <therb...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoir...@suse.de> --- net/core/dev.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 153ee2f..2e242583 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5783,13 +5783,8 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) dev->features |= NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES; dev->wanted_features = dev->features & dev->hw_features; - /* Turn on no cache copy if HW is doing checksum */ if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)) { dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY; - if (dev->features & NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM) { - dev->wanted_features |= NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY; - dev->features |= NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY; - } } /* Make NETIF_F_HIGHDMA inheritable to VLAN devices. -- 1.8.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/