On 21:35 Tue 14 Sep 2010, David Miller wrote:
> From: Brandon Philips <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:50:53 -0700
> 
> > When running a vlan -> bridge -> domU setup I was noticing poor RX
> > performance. It seems ixgbe and other drivers don't have NETIF_F_GRO set
> > in vlan_features and thus GRO is off by default for vlans.
> > 
> > I see no reason why the other drivers shouldn't be fixed. If this is OK
> > I will go off and fix the rest.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <[email protected]>
> 
> I think it should be set, but why don't we do this another way?
> 
> This feature is a software feature, essentially, so if it is published
> in netdev->features we can simply propagate it automatically to
> netdev->vlan_features at device registry time in the core networking.

Agreed. I will just send a patch to vlan_dev.c then.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances
and start using them to simplify application deployment and
accelerate your shift to cloud computing.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev
_______________________________________________
E1000-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
To learn more about Intel&#174; Ethernet, visit 
http://communities.intel.com/community/wired

Reply via email to