[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Disable LRO from userspace instead of the kernel.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue Aug 30 02:12:31 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
> Whenever a port is added to the datapath, LRO is automatically disabled.
> In the future, we may want to enable LRO in some circumstances, so have
> userspace disable LRO through the ethtool ioctls.
>
> As part of this change, the MTU and LRO checks are moved to
> netdev-vport's send(), which is where they're actually needed.
>
> Feature #6810
>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Thanks!



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