Linux Virtualization - Jul 2008 - [PATCH 4/5] virtio net: Allow receiving SG packets

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:41:38PM -0500, Rusty Russell
wrote:
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> +	/* If we can receive ANY GSO packets, we must allocate large ones. */
> +	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4)
> +	    || virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6)
> +	    || virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ECN))
> +		dev->features |= NETIF_F_LRO;
We don't want to do this because LRO implies joining packets
together in an irreversible way which is not what this is about.

Case in point we're now disabling LRO for devices that are
forwarding packets which is totally unnecessary for virtio.

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