On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:28:11 +0200
Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 00:03 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> > Le mercredi 15 septembre 2010 à 12:24 -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit :
> > > Currently vlan devices don't have GRO by default as none of the Ethernet
> > > drivers add NETIF_F_GRO to their vlan_features.
> > > 
> > > As GRO is a software feature add GRO to dev->vlan_features in
> > > register_netdevice() and let vlan_dev_init() take care that it gets
> > > enabled only when dev->features has NETIF_F_GRO too.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > 
> > Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> > 
> 
> BTW, we have a similar problem for bonding ( GRO is disabled )
> 
> # ethtool -K bond0 gro off
> # ethtool -K bond0 gro on
> Cannot set device GRO settings: Invalid argument
> 
> Same for vlans on top of bond0

Bridge has same problem as well.


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