From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
UDP_GRO was added in commit e20cf8d3f1f7
("udp: implement GRO for plain UDP sockets.")
$ git describe --contains e20cf8d3f1f7
linux/v5.0-rc1~129^2~379^2~8
Kernel source has example code in tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgro*
Per https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html,
"Describe how you obtained the information in your patch":
I reviewed the relevant UDP_GRO patches.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes v1->v2
- semantic newlines: also break on comma
- remove bold: section number following function name
---
man7/udp.7 | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man7/udp.7 b/man7/udp.7
index 6646c1e96bb0..a350a40da340 100644
--- a/man7/udp.7
+++ b/man7/udp.7
@@ -232,6 +232,20 @@ calls by passing it as a
.BR cmsg (7).
A value of zero disables the feature.
This option should not be used in code intended to be portable.
+.TP
+.BR UDP_GRO " (since Linux 5.0)"
+Enables UDP receive offload.
+If enabled,
+the socket may receive multiple datagrams worth of data as a single large
+buffer,
+together with a
+.BR cmsg (7)
+that holds the segment size.
+This option is the inverse of segmentation offload.
+It reduces receive cost by handling multiple datagrams worth of data
+as a single large packet in the kernel receive path,
+even when that exceeds MTU.
+This option should not be used in code intended to be portable.
.SS Ioctls
These ioctls can be accessed using
.BR ioctl (2).
--
2.39.2.722.g9855ee24e9-goog
