Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/4] net: stmmac: Switch to zero-copy in non-XDP RX path

[Andrew Lunn]

> It is recommended to disable the "SPH feature" by default unless some
> certain cases depend on it. Like Ido said, two large buffers being
> allocated from the same page pool for each packet, this is a huge waste
> of memory, and brings performance drops for most of general cases.

I don't know this driver, but it looks like SPH is required for
NETIF_F_GRO? Can you add this flag to hw_features, but not
wanted_features and leave SPH disabled until ethtool is used to enable
GRO?

Are there other use cases where SPH is needed?

	Andrew