On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, David Miller wrote:

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> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:23:57 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> > I have two NICs, each with 1500 MTU. The stack trace indicates that a 
> > packet was received by one NIC and bridged to the other. The stack trace 
> > also indicates that it went through GSO code path. The question is why? 
> > How could a forwarded packet be so large to use GSO?
> 
> GRO automatically accumulates packets together, accumulating them into
> larger super-packets.  This is done regardless of input device feeding
> it.
> 
> Can you understand this now?  In software, we accumulate all incoming
> packets for a TCP stream into larger super-packets.  Just because it's
> a bridging scenerio doesn't mean we disable GRO.
> 
> These super-packets are being bridged, then forwarded out your
> destination device and GSO has to de-segment these GRO frames.
> 
> GRO is done unconditionally, all the time, for all packets.

I see, but GRO is turned off on my interfaces, according to ethtool.

Mikulas
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