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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Limin Wang <lwang.nbl@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LRO: creating vlan subports affects parent port's LRO settings
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:26:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201123162639.5d692198@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACpdL32SRKb8hXzuF_APybip+hyxkXRYoxCW_OMhn0odRSQKuw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:37:27 -0500 Limin Wang wrote:
> Under relatively recent kernels (v4.4+), creating a vlan subport on a
> LRO supported parent NIC may turn LRO off on the parent port and
> further render its LRO feature practically unchangeable.

That does sound like an oversight in commit fd867d51f889 ("net/core:
generic support for disabling netdev features down stack").

Are you able to create a patch to fix this?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-24  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20  1:37 LRO: creating vlan subports affects parent port's LRO settings Limin Wang
2020-11-24  0:26 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-12-06  0:04   ` Jarod Wilson
2020-12-06 16:49     ` Michal Kubecek
2020-12-06 22:58       ` Jarod Wilson
2020-12-07  3:19         ` Limin Wang
2020-12-07  3:04       ` Limin Wang

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