On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:14:20PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:20:46 +0000 > > > If the consensus is still that we must preserve packets exactly (aside > > from the usual modifications by IP routers) then LRO should be disabled > > on all devices for which forwarding is enabled. > > I believe this is still undoubtedly the consensus.
With virtio we are getting packets from a linux host, so we could thinkably preserve packets exactly even with LRO. I am guessing other hardware could be doing this as well. I am not sure what information would need to be preserved - could someone help clarify please? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
