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| author |   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2006-06-30 13:37:03 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-06-30 14:12:10 -0700 |
| commit | f83ef8c0b58dac17211a4c0b6df0e2b1bd6637b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 61661a587df97cb2a9f73b5d0d1cf30f09644051 /include/linux/skbuff.h | |
| parent | [NET]: Generalise TSO-specific bits from skb_setup_caps (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 |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 59918be91d0a..57d7d4965f9a 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, }; /** |