On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com> wrote: >> From: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> >> >> When rq_type is Striding RQ, no room of SKB_RESERVE is needed >> as SKB allocation is not done via build_skb. >> >> Fixes: e4b85508072b ("net/mlx5e: Slightly reduce hardware LRO size") >> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> >> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com> > > why this one is a bug fix? > Sound like an optimization from commit log.
It is a regression since ("net/mlx5e: Slightly reduce hardware LRO size"). And we see due to this a small drop in HW LRO performance. We just fixed the LRO size to be the same as it was before the offending patch for striding RQ case.