On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 May 2026 17:39:41 -0700 Rosen Penev wrote:
> > > On Sun, 17 May 2026 12:28:56 -0700 Rosen Penev wrote:
> > > > Collect received skbs on a local list during RX polling and pass the
> > > > completed batch to netif_receive_skb_list(). This lets the networking
> > > > stack process packets from a poll cycle in bulk instead of handing each
> > > > skb up individually.
> > >
> > > GRO should be even better.
> > GRO will result in slower routing performance because there is no
> > hardware checksum.
>
> Mention this in the commit message too.
Will do.
> Network adapters without checksum offload are pretty rare these days.
Qualcomm continues to make adapters like these.
> Speaking of being old, do you know if this driver is used in practice?
Yes. In OpenWrt with kernel 6.18.
> Maybe we can delete it.
Way too early. I've tried previously to clean it up some but got rejected.
