[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next] xen-netfront: convert to GRO API and advertise this feature
On 09/22/2013 12:05 AM, Wei Liu wrote: > Anirban was seeing netfront received MTU size packets, which downgraded > throughput. The following patch makes netfront use GRO API which > improves throughput for that case. > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <abchak@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Maybe a dumb question: doesn't Xen depends on the driver of host card to do GRO and pass it to netfront? What the case that netfront can receive a MTU size packet, for a card that does not support GRO in host? Doing GRO twice may introduce extra overheads. Thanks _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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