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Date:   Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:30:06 +0300
From:   Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 00/20] net: dsa: add GRO support
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Vladimir Oltean wrote 31.12.2019 18:32:
> Hi Alexander,

Hi,

> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 16:31, Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> I mark this as RFC, and there are the key questions for maintainers,
>> developers, users etc.:
>> - Do we need GRO support for DSA at all?
>> - Which tagger protocols really need it and which don't?
>> - Does this series bring any performance improvements on the
>>   affected systems?
> 
> If these are these questions for maintainers, developers, users etc,
> then what has determined you to make these changes?

The main reason was obviously pretty good results on a particular
hardware on which I developed this (and other) series and a general
opinion that GRO improves overall performance on most systems.
DSA is a special case though.

> Thanks,
> -Vladimir

Regards,
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