[PATCH net-next, v2, 3/3] hv_netvsc: Update document for LRO/RSC support

Haiyang Zhang haiyangz at linuxonhyperv.com
Fri Sep 21 18:20:37 UTC 2018


From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>

Update document for LRO/RSC support, and the command line info to
change the setting.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt b/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt
index 92f5b31392fa..3bfa635bbbd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ Features
   like packets and significantly reduces CPU usage under heavy Rx
   load.
 
+  Large Receive Offload (LRO), or Receive Side Coalescing (RSC)
+  -------------------------------------------------------------
+  The driver supports LRO/RSC in the vSwitch feature. It reduces the per packet
+  processing overhead by coalescing multiple TCP segments when possible. The
+  feature is enabled by default on VMs running on Windows Server 2019 and
+  later. It may be changed by ethtool command:
+	ethtool -K eth0 lro on
+	ethtool -K eth0 lro off
+
   SR-IOV support
   --------------
   Hyper-V supports SR-IOV as a hardware acceleration option. If SR-IOV
-- 
2.18.0



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