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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 2017 15:44:28 +0800
From:      Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com>
To:        "Somayajulu, David" <David.Somayajulu@cavium.com>
Cc:        hiren panchasara <hiren@strugglingcoder.info>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, David C Somayajulu <davidcs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316309 - head/sys/dev/qlxgbe
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Maybe it's time to add an IFCAP for HWLRO.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Somayajulu, David
<David.Somayajulu@cavium.com> 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:hiren@strugglingcoder.info]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:12 PM
> To: Somayajulu, David <David.Somayajulu@cavium.com>
> Cc: David C Somayajulu <davidcs@FreeBSD.org>; src-committers@freebsd.org; svn-src-all@freebsd.org; svn-src-head@freebsd.org
> 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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