[PATCH net-next 4/4] gve: Enable hw-gro by default if device supported
From: Joshua Washington
Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 14:58:09 EST
From: Ankit Garg <nktgrg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Change the driver's default behavior to enable hw-gro whenever supported
for device.
Performance observations:
- We observed ~10% improvement in RX single stream throughput across
various MTU sizes.
- No change in TCP_RR/TCP_CRR latencies
Signed-off-by: Ankit Garg <nktgrg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c
index 873672f6..6ce8345e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c
@@ -1128,8 +1128,10 @@ int gve_adminq_describe_device(struct gve_priv *priv)
gve_set_default_rss_sizes(priv);
/* DQO supports HW-GRO. */
- if (!gve_is_gqi(priv))
+ if (gve_is_dqo(priv)) {
priv->dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GRO_HW;
+ priv->dev->features |= NETIF_F_GRO_HW;
+ }
priv->max_registered_pages =
be64_to_cpu(descriptor->max_registered_pages);
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog