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Commit a02e8964eaf92 ("virtio-net: ethtool configurable LRO")
maps LRO to virtio guest offloading features and allows the
administrator to enable and disable those features via ethtool.
This leads to several issues:
- For a device that doesn't support control guest offloads, the "LRO"
can't be disabled triggering WARN in dev_disable_lro() when turning
off LRO or when enabling forwarding bridging etc.
- For a device that supports control guest offloads, the guest
offloads are disabled in cases of bridging, forwarding etc slowing
down the traffic.
Fix this by using NETIF_F_GRO_HW instead. Though the spec does not
guarantee packets to be re-segmented as the original ones,
we can add that to the spec, possibly with a flag for devices to
differentiate between GRO and LRO.
Further, we never advertised LRO historically before a02e8964eaf92
("virtio-net: ethtool configurable LRO") and so bridged/forwarded
configs effectively always relied on virtio receive offloads behaving
like GRO - thus even if this breaks any configs it is at least not
a regression.
Fixes: a02e8964eaf92 ("virtio-net: ethtool configurable LRO")
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Ivan <ivan@prestigetransportation.com>
Tested-by: Ivan <ivan@prestigetransportation.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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