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Add warning about GRO and Neutron routers
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Generic Receive Offload appears to be enabled by default on recent Ubuntu
kernels. It can have a significant impact on download performance when
enabled on a Neutron router interface. This patch warns users about that.

Change-Id: I3d3a560b1db55aabd901f27ad5c7bd5777b300da
Closes-bug: 1252900
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djoreilly committed Nov 26, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -446,6 +446,12 @@ metadata_proxy_shared_secret = <replaceable>METADATA_PASS</replaceable></program
must set the newly created <literal>br-ex</literal>
interface to have the IP address that formerly belonged
to <replaceable>EXTERNAL_INTERFACE</replaceable>.</para>
<warning os="ubuntu">
<para>Generic Receive Offload (GRO) should not be enabled on
this interface as it can cause severe performance problems.
It can be disabled with the ethtool utility.
</para>
</warning>
<para os="rhel;fedora;centos">Edit the
<filename>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-EXTERNAL_INTERFACE</filename>
file:</para>
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