On 11/22/17 5:30 PM, Solio Sarabia wrote: > The netdevice gso_max_size is exposed to allow users fine-control on > systems with multiple NICs with different GSO buffer sizes, and where > the virtual devices like bridge and veth, need to be aware of the GSO > size of the underlying devices. > > In a virtualized environment, setting the right GSO sizes for physical > and virtual devices makes all TSO work to be on physical NIC, improving > throughput and reducing CPU util. If virtual devices send buffers > greater than what NIC supports, it forces host to do TSO for buffers > exceeding the limit, increasing CPU utilization in host. > > Suggested-by: Shiny Sebastian <shiny.sebast...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Solio Sarabia <solio.sara...@intel.com> > ---
This should be added to rtnetlink rather than sysfs.
