From 61c1db7fae21ed33c614356a43bf6580c5e53118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:47:30 -0700 Subject: ipv6: sit: add GSO/TSO support Now ipv6_gso_segment() is stackable, its relatively easy to implement GSO/TSO support for SIT tunnels Performance results, when segmentation is done after tunnel device (as no NIC is yet enabled for TSO SIT support) : Before patch : lpq84:~# ./netperf -H 2002:af6:1153:: -Cc MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from ::0 (::) port 0 AF_INET6 to 2002:af6:1153:: () port 0 AF_INET6 Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB 87380 16384 16384 10.00 3168.31 4.81 4.64 2.988 2.877 After patch : lpq84:~# ./netperf -H 2002:af6:1153:: -Cc MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from ::0 (::) port 0 AF_INET6 to 2002:af6:1153:: () port 0 AF_INET6 Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB 87380 16384 16384 10.00 5525.00 7.76 5.17 2.763 1.840 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/ethtool.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c index 8cab7744790e..862989898f61 100644 --- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static const char netdev_features_strings[NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] [NETIF_F_FSO_BIT] = "tx-fcoe-segmentation", [NETIF_F_GSO_GRE_BIT] = "tx-gre-segmentation", [NETIF_F_GSO_IPIP_BIT] = "tx-ipip-segmentation", + [NETIF_F_GSO_SIT_BIT] = "tx-sit-segmentation", [NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_BIT] = "tx-udp_tnl-segmentation", [NETIF_F_GSO_MPLS_BIT] = "tx-mpls-segmentation", -- cgit v1.2.3