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bcm53xx: copy patch disabling GRO to kernel 5.15
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Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
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Rafał Miłecki committed Jun 24, 2022
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <rafal@milecki.pl>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:01:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net: disable GRO by default
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In many cases GRO improves network performance however it comes at a
cost of chacksums calculations. In case of slow CPU and missing hardware
csum calculation support GRO can actually decrease network speed.

On BCM4708 *disabling* GRO results in following NAT masquarade speed
changes:
1. 364 Mb/s → 396 Mb/s (packet steering disabled)
2. 341 Mb/s → 566 Mb/s (packet steering enabled)

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
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include/linux/netdev_features.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
@@ -242,10 +242,10 @@ static inline int find_next_netdev_featu
#define NETIF_F_UPPER_DISABLES NETIF_F_LRO

/* changeable features with no special hardware requirements */
-#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES (NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_GRO)
+#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES (NETIF_F_GSO)

/* Changeable features with no special hardware requirements that defaults to off. */
-#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES_OFF (NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD)
+#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES_OFF (NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD | NETIF_F_GRO)

#define NETIF_F_VLAN_FEATURES (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER | \
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX | \

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