[IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6
This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6. This is based on a patch
by Ananda Raju <[email protected]>. 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.
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| | 1500 | 9600 |
| ------------------|-------------------|
| | thru CPU | thru CPU |
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| TSO OFF | 2.00 5.5% id | 5.66 20.0% id |
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| TSO ON | 2.63 78.0 id | 5.67 39.0% id |
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Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 59918be9..57d7d49 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -171,13 +171,15 @@
enum {
SKB_GSO_TCPV4 = 1 << 0,
- SKB_GSO_UDPV4 = 1 << 1,
+ SKB_GSO_UDP = 1 << 1,
/* This indicates the skb is from an untrusted source. */
SKB_GSO_DODGY = 1 << 2,
/* This indicates the tcp segment has CWR set. */
- SKB_GSO_TCPV4_ECN = 1 << 3,
+ SKB_GSO_TCP_ECN = 1 << 3,
+
+ SKB_GSO_TCPV6 = 1 << 4,
};
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