From f83ef8c0b58dac17211a4c0b6df0e2b1bd6637b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Herbert Xu Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:37:03 -0700 Subject: [IPV6]: Added GSO support for TCPv6 This patch adds GSO support for IPv6 and TCPv6. This is based on a patch by Ananda Raju . 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h') diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 59918be91d0..57d7d4965f9 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, }; /** -- cgit v1.2.3