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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt index 7413eb05223b..c77f9d57eb91 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt @@ -163,3 +163,12 @@ This requests that the NIC receive all possible frames, including errored frames (such as bad FCS, etc). This can be helpful when sniffing a link with bad packets on it. Some NICs may receive more packets if also put into normal PROMISC mode. + +* rx-gro-hw + +This requests that the NIC enables Hardware GRO (generic receive offload). +Hardware GRO is basically the exact reverse of TSO, and is generally +stricter than Hardware LRO. A packet stream merged by Hardware GRO must +be re-segmentable by GSO or TSO back to the exact original packet stream. +Hardware GRO is dependent on RXCSUM since every packet successfully merged +by hardware must also have the checksum verified by hardware. |