[ovs-dev] [PATCH net] openvswitch: disable LRO unless stated otherwise

[David Miller]

From: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:24:14 -0300

> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:50:21AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 May 2015 15:03:56 -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> > OVS interface for generic networking device operation looks odd. have
>> > you considered adding new device ioctl to do this?
>> 
>> New ioctls for networking configuration are generally not allowed. The
>> preferred way to configure networking is netlink. And as this is very
>> much ovs specific (all other users of dev_disable_lro such as bridging
>> want to do this unconditionally), ovs netlink is the correct place to
>> put this to.
> 
> Exactly. Team, Bonding, bridge, and when you enable forwarding on a
> networking device gets LRO automatically disabled in the kernel.
> 
> I suggest to always disable LRO in the kernel as the other examples
> do until there is a real need in OVS to benefit from LRO to implement
> such API change.

Agreed, just turn off LRO by default and don't add a new interface to
turn it back on until we actually need it.