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    ixgbe: fix automatic LRO/RSC settings for low latency · 28c8e479
    Andy Gospodarek authored
    This patch added to 2.6.34:
    
    	commit f8d1dcaf
    
    
    	Author: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
    	Date:   Tue Apr 27 01:37:20 2010 +0000
    
    	    ixgbe: enable extremely low latency
    
    introduced a feature where LRO (called RSC on the hardware) was disabled
    automatically when setting rx-usecs to 0 via ethtool.  Some might not
    like the fact that LRO was disabled automatically, but I'm fine with
    that.  What I don't like is that LRO/RSC is automatically enabled when
    rx-usecs is set >0 via ethtool.
    
    This would certainly be a problem if the device was used for forwarding
    and it was determined that the low latency wasn't needed after the
    device was already forwarding.  I played around with saving the state of
    LRO in the driver, but it just didn't seem worthwhile and would require
    a small change to dev_disable_lro() that I did not like.
    
    This patch simply leaves LRO disabled when setting rx-usecs >0 and
    requires that the user enable it again.  An extra informational message
    will also now appear in the log so users can understand why LRO isn't
    being enabled as they expect.
    
    Inconsistency of LRO setting first noticed by Stanislaw Gruszka.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
    CC: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
    CC: stable@kernel.org
    Tested-by: default avatarStephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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