[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/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index abb94de..11007c7 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
mtu = dst_mtu(dst);
- if ((skb->len <= mtu) || ipfragok) {
+ if ((skb->len <= mtu) || ipfragok || skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size) {
IP6_INC_STATS(IPSTATS_MIB_OUTREQUESTS);
return NF_HOOK(PF_INET6, NF_IP6_LOCAL_OUT, skb, NULL, dst->dev,
dst_output);
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@
/* specify the length of each IP datagram fragment*/
skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = mtu - fragheaderlen -
sizeof(struct frag_hdr);
- skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_UDPV4;
+ skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_UDP;
ipv6_select_ident(skb, &fhdr);
skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id = fhdr.identification;
__skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_write_queue, skb);