Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] virtio-net: enable NETIF_F_GRO_HW only if GRO-related offloads are supported

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:31:26 -0700

On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:34:33 +0800 Di Zhu wrote:
> In such a setup, reporting NETIF_F_GRO_HW as available for the device
> is too optimistic and misleading to the user.

This is not a sufficient justification to make this a fix.
As Michael was already alluding to HW GRO usually covers fewer
protocols and is less effective than SW GRO. Normal config is
to have both enabled. Please explain if there's anything special
about virtio here, because I haven't heard of people disabling
SW GRO because HW GRO is already enabled.

I think this should continue to target net-next with no Fixes tag.