[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.
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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 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index bf7f8c2..7ea5bea 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -270,9 +270,8 @@
ipv6_addr_copy(&np->saddr, saddr);
inet->rcv_saddr = LOOPBACK4_IPV6;
+ sk->sk_gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV6;
ip6_dst_store(sk, dst, NULL);
- sk->sk_route_caps = dst->dev->features &
- ~(NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO);
icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len = 0;
if (np->opt)
@@ -930,9 +929,8 @@
* comment in that function for the gory details. -acme
*/
+ sk->sk_gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV6;
ip6_dst_store(newsk, dst, NULL);
- newsk->sk_route_caps = dst->dev->features &
- ~(NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO);
newtcp6sk = (struct tcp6_sock *)newsk;
inet_sk(newsk)->pinet6 = &newtcp6sk->inet6;