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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2006-06-30 16:37:03 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-06-30 17:12:10 -0400 |
| commit | f83ef8c0b58dac17211a4c0b6df0e2b1bd6637b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 61661a587df97cb2a9f73b5d0d1cf30f09644051 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | bcd76111178ebccedd46a9b3eaff65c78e5a70af (diff) | |
[IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6
This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6. This is based on a patch
by Ananda Raju <Ananda.Raju@neterion.com>. His original description is:
This patch enables TSO over IPv6. Currently Linux network stacks
restricts TSO over IPv6 by clearing of the NETIF_F_TSO bit from
"dev->features". This patch will remove this restriction.
This patch will introduce a new flag NETIF_F_TSO6 which will be used
to check whether device supports TSO over IPv6. If device support TSO
over IPv6 then we don't clear of NETIF_F_TSO and which will make the
TCP layer to create TSO packets. Any device supporting TSO over IPv6
will set NETIF_F_TSO6 flag in "dev->features" along with NETIF_F_TSO.
In case when user disables TSO using ethtool, NETIF_F_TSO will get
cleared from "dev->features". So even if we have NETIF_F_TSO6 we don't
get TSO packets created by TCP layer.
SKB_GSO_TCPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_TCP to make it generic GSO packet.
SKB_GSO_UDPV4 renamed to SKB_GSO_UDP as UFO is not a IPv4 feature.
UFO is supported over IPv6 also
The following table shows there is significant improvement in
throughput with normal frames and CPU usage for both normal and jumbo.
--------------------------------------------------
| | 1500 | 9600 |
| ------------------|-------------------|
| | thru CPU | thru CPU |
--------------------------------------------------
| TSO OFF | 2.00 5.5% id | 5.66 20.0% id |
--------------------------------------------------
| TSO ON | 2.63 78.0 id | 5.67 39.0% id |
--------------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 6db03ab7cec8..85f99f60deea 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h | |||
| @@ -315,9 +315,10 @@ struct net_device | |||
| 315 | #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT 16 | 315 | #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT 16 |
| 316 | #define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK 0xffff0000 | 316 | #define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK 0xffff0000 |
| 317 | #define NETIF_F_TSO (SKB_GSO_TCPV4 << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) | 317 | #define NETIF_F_TSO (SKB_GSO_TCPV4 << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) |
| 318 | #define NETIF_F_UFO (SKB_GSO_UDPV4 << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) | 318 | #define NETIF_F_UFO (SKB_GSO_UDP << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) |
| 319 | #define NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST (SKB_GSO_DODGY << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) | 319 | #define NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST (SKB_GSO_DODGY << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) |
| 320 | #define NETIF_F_TSO_ECN (SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) | 320 | #define NETIF_F_TSO_ECN (SKB_GSO_TCP_ECN << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) |
| 321 | #define NETIF_F_TSO6 (SKB_GSO_TCPV6 << NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT) | ||
| 321 | 322 | ||
| 322 | #define NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM (NETIF_F_NO_CSUM | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM) | 323 | #define NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM (NETIF_F_NO_CSUM | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM) |
| 323 | #define NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM) | 324 | #define NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM (NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM) |