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hv_netvsc: Update document for LRO/RSC support

Update document for LRO/RSC support, and the command line info to
change the setting.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Haiyang Zhang 7 years ago
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@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ Features
   like packets and significantly reduces CPU usage under heavy Rx
   load.
 
+  Large Receive Offload (LRO), or Receive Side Coalescing (RSC)
+  -------------------------------------------------------------
+  The driver supports LRO/RSC in the vSwitch feature. It reduces the per packet
+  processing overhead by coalescing multiple TCP segments when possible. The
+  feature is enabled by default on VMs running on Windows Server 2019 and
+  later. It may be changed by ethtool command:
+	ethtool -K eth0 lro on
+	ethtool -K eth0 lro off
+
   SR-IOV support
   --------------
   Hyper-V supports SR-IOV as a hardware acceleration option. If SR-IOV