Bug 499347

Summary: Add Generic Receive Offload support
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu>
Component: kernelAssignee: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 5.4CC: bstein, dzickus, gozen, llim, mwagner, syeghiay
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Description Herbert Xu 2009-05-06 09:34:52 UTC
In order to boost virtualisation performance on 10GbE (and 10GbE performance in general), we need to add GRO support (analogous to GSO support on egress).

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2009-05-07 05:49:49 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Don Zickus 2009-06-04 16:07:25 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-152.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team
has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so.  However feel free
to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.

Comment 5 Don Zickus 2009-06-05 18:56:40 UTC
Moving back to POST to pickup a small fix.

Comment 6 Don Zickus 2009-06-11 15:37:10 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-153.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team
has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so.  However feel free
to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.

Comment 8 Herbert Xu 2009-06-16 13:57:15 UTC
*** Bug 505419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 08:57:49 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html