Maybe it's time to add an IFCAP for HWLRO.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Somayajulu, David
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I know this is not a new topic but a little more descriptive commit-log 
>>> > would have been nicer. Also, you should update the manpage reflecting 
>>> > this change. i.e. now it also supports software LRO when h/w LRO is 
>>> > disabled.
>>> Will do. Sorry about that.
> Minor correction. Please note that the driver provides the ability to choose 
> between SoftwareLRO and HW LRO, when LRO is enabled - it is HW LRO by 
> default. If LRO is turned off via ifconfig, neither Software nor HW LRO is 
> enabled.
>
> Cheers
> David S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hiren panchasara [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:12 PM
> To: Somayajulu, David <[email protected]>
> Cc: David C Somayajulu <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r316309 - head/sys/dev/qlxgbe
>
> On 03/30/17 at 11:07P, Somayajulu, David wrote:
>> Hi Hiren,
>> > I know this is not a new topic but a little more descriptive commit-log 
>> > would have been nicer. Also, you should update the manpage reflecting this 
>> > change. i.e. now it also supports software LRO when h/w LRO is disabled.
>> Will do. Sorry about that.
>
> Thanks!
>>
>> > Do you know of a case where one would want to disable h/w lro and enable 
>> > s/w lro? I guess where you want to free up nic and make cpu do more work?
>> I was under the impression as well, that s/w lro is moot, if h/w lro was 
>> available, till one costumer asked for it. Not sure what the use case is.
>
> I thought this idea (like gro in linux) was popular when lro in h/w was 
> considered buggy and couldn't correctly do batching (i.e. hide useful flags). 
> Not sure if that's still the case.
>
> cheers,
> Hiren
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