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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2006-06-30 13:37:03 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-06-30 14:12:10 -0700
commitf83ef8c0b58dac17211a4c0b6df0e2b1bd6637b1 (patch)
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parentbcd76111178ebccedd46a9b3eaff65c78e5a70af (diff)
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[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/skbuff.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
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 {
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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