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@@ -163,3 +163,12 @@ This requests that the NIC receive all possible frames, including errored
frames (such as bad FCS, etc). This can be helpful when sniffing a link with
bad packets on it. Some NICs may receive more packets if also put into normal
PROMISC mode.
+
+* rx-gro-hw
+
+This requests that the NIC enables Hardware GRO (generic receive offload).
+Hardware GRO is basically the exact reverse of TSO, and is generally
+stricter than Hardware LRO. A packet stream merged by Hardware GRO must
+be re-segmentable by GSO or TSO back to the exact original packet stream.
+Hardware GRO is dependent on RXCSUM since every packet successfully merged
+by hardware must also have the checksum verified by hardware.