@gmail.com [mailto:scott.silver...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Silverman
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 3:32 PM
To: Tantilov, Emil S
Cc: Ed Ravin; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Issue with GRO on IGB in Linux Router
What is the best way to disable it? I know I can do an ethto
What is the best way to disable it? I know I can do an ethtool -K ethx gro
off, but is there a better way to disable it? Ideally something that keeps
it from coming on before I can turn it off.
Thanks,
Scott
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
> Ed Ravin wrote:
> > On Wed,
Ed Ravin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0700, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>> There were issues with GRO and routing in the initial implementations
>> (2.6.29 I think was where GRO was introduced). Try newer kernel
>> (2.6.32.x) and it should work.
>
> Emil - what is the earliest kernel t
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0700, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
> There were issues with GRO and routing in the initial implementations
> (2.6.29 I think was where GRO was introduced). Try newer kernel
> (2.6.32.x) and it should work.
Emil - what is the earliest kernel that has a working GRO? I
, December 23, 2009 12:30 PM
To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Issue with GRO on IGB in Linux Router
I would like to made a few more additions, as some things were brought to my
attention.
First, I was informed that a newer version of ethtool is required to support
I would like to made a few more additions, as some things were brought to my
attention.
First, I was informed that a newer version of ethtool is required to support
gro, I now see that gro was indeed present, and default on, in 2.0.6 (though
not in 1.3.19.3).
Second, I am attaching the lspci -v o
I would like to add a few things to my post:
First, I noticed this issue both when routing through the box or when
running an iperf with the tcp endpoint as the box itself.
Second, It seems that GRO was not an option/enabled (at least as far as I
can tell from ethtool -k) until driver 2.1.1, I ha
