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| author | Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> | 2020-11-02 11:17:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> | 2020-11-02 11:17:54 +0100 |
| commit | c489573b5b6ce6442ad4658d9d5ec77839b91622 (patch) | |
| tree | 6db35e19cfb4c1280033a5545c94e15ac9c7b863 /Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst | |
| parent | fbdev/sh_mobile: Drop unused include (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 5.10-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c489573b5b6ce6442ad4658d9d5ec77839b91622.tar.xz linux-c489573b5b6ce6442ad4658d9d5ec77839b91622.zip | |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Daniel needs -rc2 in drm-misc-next to merge some patches
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst index ce239fa01848..2759dc1cc525 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst @@ -58,3 +58,31 @@ forwarding table using the new bridge command. 3. Show forwarding table:: # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0 + +The following NIC features may indicate support for UDP tunnel-related +offloads (most commonly VXLAN features, but support for a particular +encapsulation protocol is NIC specific): + + - `tx-udp_tnl-segmentation` + - `tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation` + ability to perform TCP segmentation offload of UDP encapsulated frames + + - `rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload` + receive side parsing of UDP encapsulated frames which allows NICs to + perform protocol-aware offloads, like checksum validation offload of + inner frames (only needed by NICs without protocol-agnostic offloads) + +For devices supporting `rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload` the list of currently +offloaded ports can be interrogated with `ethtool`:: + + $ ethtool --show-tunnels eth0 + Tunnel information for eth0: + UDP port table 0: + Size: 4 + Types: vxlan + No entries + UDP port table 1: + Size: 4 + Types: geneve, vxlan-gpe + Entries (1): + port 1230, vxlan-gpe |