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diff --git a/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst b/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst index ade72c98..fada4d2e 100644 --- a/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst +++ b/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst @@ -61,6 +61,22 @@ Offloading Enable different types of hardware offloading on the given NIC. + :abbr:`LRO (Large Receive Offload)` is a technique designed to boost the + efficiency of how your computer's network interface card (NIC) processes + incoming network traffic. Typically, network data arrives in smaller chunks + called packets. Processing each packet individually consumes CPU (central + processing unit) resources. Lots of small packets can lead to a performance + bottleneck. Instead of handing the CPU each packet as it comes in, LRO + instructs the NIC to combine multiple incoming packets into a single, larger + packet. This larger packet is then passed to the CPU for processing. + + .. note:: Under some circumstances, LRO is known to modify the packet headers + of forwarded traffic, which breaks the end-to-end principle of computer + networking. LRO is also only able to offload TCP segments encapsulated in + IPv4 packets. Due to these limitations, it is recommended to use GRO + (Generic Receive Offload) where possible. More information on the + limitations of LRO can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/358910/ + :abbr:`GSO (Generic Segmentation Offload)` is a pure software offload that is meant to deal with cases where device drivers cannot perform the offloads described above. What occurs in GSO is that a given skbuff will have its data @@ -87,13 +103,13 @@ Offloading placing the packet on the desired CPU's backlog queue and waking up the CPU for processing. RPS has some advantages over RSS: - - it can be used with any NIC, - - software filters can easily be added to hash over new protocols, - - it does not increase hardware device interrupt rate (although it does - introduce inter-processor interrupts (IPIs)). + - it can be used with any NIC + - software filters can easily be added to hash over new protocols + - it does not increase hardware device interrupt rate, although it does + introduce inter-processor interrupts (IPIs) - .. note:: In order to use TSO/LRO with VMXNET3 adaters one must also enable - the SG offloading option. + .. note:: In order to use TSO/LRO with VMXNET3 adapters, the SG offloading + option must also be enabled. Authentication (EAPoL) ---------------------- |