[PATCH manpages v2 2/2] udp.7: add UDP_GRO

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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




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