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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2016 10:40:13 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 00/16] ipv6: Enable GUEoIPv6 and more fixes
 for v6 tunneling

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
>> This patch set:
>>   - Fixes GRE6 to process translate flags correctly from configuration
>>   - Adds support for GSO and GRO for ip6ip6 and ip4ip6
>>   - Add support for FOU and GUE in IPv6
>>   - Support GRE, ip6ip6 and ip4ip6 over FOU/GUE
>>   - Fixes ip6_input to deal with UDP encapsulations
>>   - Some other minor fixes
>>
>> v2:
>>   - Removed a check of GSO types in MPLS
>>   - Define GSO type SKB_GSO_IPXIP6 and SKB_GSO_IPXIP4 (based on input
>>     from Alexander)
>>   - Don't define GSO types specifically for IP6IP6 and IP4IP6, above
>>     fix makes that unnecessary
>>   - Don't bother clearing encapsulation flag in UDP tunnel segment
>>     (another item suggested by Alexander).
>>
>> v3:
>>   - Address some minor comments from Alexander
>>
>> v4:
>>   - Rebase on changes to fix IP TX tunnels
>>   - Fix MTU issues in ip4ip6, ip6ip6
>>   - Add test data for above
>>
>> v5:
>>   - Address feedback from Shmulik Ladkani regarding extension header
>>     code that does not return next header but in instead relies
>>     on returning value via nhoff. Solution here is to fix EH
>>     processing to return nexthdr value.
>>   - Refactored IPv4 encaps so that we won't need to create
>>     a ip6_tunnel_core.c when adding encap support IPv6.
>>
>> v6:
>>   - Fix build issues with regard to new GSO constants
>>   - FIx MTU calculation issues ip6_tunnel.c pointed out byt ALex
>>   - Add encap_hlen into headroom for GREv6 to work with FOU/GUE
>>
>> v7:
>>   - Added skb_set_inner_ipproto to ip4ip6 and ip6ip6
>>   - Clarified max_headroom in ip6_tnl_xmit
>>   - Set features for IPv6 tunnels
>>   - Other cleanup suggested by Alexander
>>   - Above fixes throughput performance issues in ip4ip6 and ip6ip6,
>>     updated test results to reflect that
>>
>> Tested: Various cases of IP tunnels with netperf TCP_STREAM and TCP_RR.
>>
>>     - IPv4/GRE/GUE/IPv6 with RCO
>>       1 TCP_STREAM
>>         6616 Mbps
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         1244043 tps
>>         141/243/446 90/95/99% latencies
>>         86.61% CPU utilization
>>
>>     - IPv6/GRE/GUE/IPv6 with RCO
>>       1 TCP_STREAM
>>         6940 Mbps
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         1270903 tps
>>         138/236/440 90/95/99% latencies
>>         87.51% CPU utilization
>>
>>      - IP6IP6
>>       1 TCP_STREAM
>>         5307 Mbps
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         498981 tps
>>         388/498/631 90/95/99% latencies
>>         19.75% CPU utilization (1 CPU saturated)
>>
>>      - IP6IP6/GUE with RCO
>>       1 TCP_STREAM
>>         5575 Mbps
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         1233818 tps
>>         143/244/451 90/95/99% latencies
>>         87.57 CPU utilization
>>
>>      - IP4IP6
>>       1 TCP_STREAM
>>         5235 Mbps
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         763774 tps
>>         250/318/466 90/95/99% latencies
>>         35.25% CPU utilization (1 CPU saturated)
>>
>>      - IP4IP6/GUE with RCO
>>       1 TCP_STREAM
>>         5337 Mbps
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         1196385 tps
>>         148/251/460 90/95/99% latencies
>>         87.56 CPU utilization
>>
>>      - GRE with keyid
>>       200 TCP_RR
>>         744173 tps
>>         258/332/461 90/95/99% latencies
>>         34.59% CPU utilization (1 CPU saturated)
>>
>>
>> Tom Herbert (16):
>>   gso: Remove arbitrary checks for unsupported GSO
>>   net: define gso types for IPx over IPv4 and IPv6
>>   ipv6: Fix nexthdr for reinjection
>>   ipv6: Change "final" protocol processing for encapsulation
>>   net: Cleanup encap items in ip_tunnels.h
>>   fou: Call setup_udp_tunnel_sock
>>   fou: Split out {fou,gue}_build_header
>>   fou: Support IPv6 in fou
>>   ip6_tun: Add infrastructure for doing encapsulation
>>   fou: Add encap ops for IPv6 tunnels
>>   ip6_gre: Add support for fou/gue encapsulation
>>   ip6_tunnel: Add support for fou/gue encapsulation
>>   ipv6: Set features for IPv6 tunnels
>>   ip6ip6: Support for GSO/GRO
>>   ip4ip6: Support for GSO/GRO
>>   ipv6: Don't reset inner headers in ip6_tnl_xmit
>>
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c  |   5 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c         |   5 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c       |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c       |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c     |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c   |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c         |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c         |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c     |   3 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |   3 +-
>>  include/linux/netdev_features.h                   |  12 +-
>>  include/linux/netdevice.h                         |   4 +-
>>  include/linux/skbuff.h                            |   4 +-
>>  include/net/fou.h                                 |  10 +-
>>  include/net/inet_common.h                         |   5 +
>>  include/net/ip6_tunnel.h                          |  58 +++++++
>>  include/net/ip_tunnels.h                          |  76 +++++++--
>>  net/core/ethtool.c                                |   4 +-
>>  net/ipv4/af_inet.c                                |  32 +---
>>  net/ipv4/fou.c                                    | 144 +++++++++-------
>>  net/ipv4/gre_offload.c                            |  14 --
>>  net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c                              |  45 -----
>>  net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c                         |   9 +
>>  net/ipv4/ipip.c                                   |   2 +-
>>  net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c                            |  19 ---
>>  net/ipv4/udp_offload.c                            |  10 --
>>  net/ipv6/Makefile                                 |   1 +
>>  net/ipv6/fou6.c                                   | 140 ++++++++++++++++
>>  net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c                                |  79 ++++++++-
>>  net/ipv6/ip6_input.c                              |  33 +++-
>>  net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c                            |  77 ++++++---
>>  net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c                             | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  net/ipv6/sit.c                                    |   4 +-
>>  net/ipv6/udp_offload.c                            |  13 --
>>  net/mpls/mpls_gso.c                               |  11 +-
>>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c                   |  17 +-
>>  36 files changed, 737 insertions(+), 310 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 net/ipv6/fou6.c
>>
>> --
>> 2.8.0.rc2
>>
>
> So I have put this patch series through a quick check by comparing it
> against the code I had in terms of fixes and as such and it looks
> good.
>
> I have 2 follow-up patches I will probably want to submit for it.  One
> prevents us from supporting segmentation offloads if GRE_CSUM is
> enabled for a FOU/GUE tunnel with GRE, and the other enables the Intel
> NICs to offload this in hardware or via a mix of hardware and software
> using GSO_PARTIAL.
>
That sounds good. I also assume some drivers will want to enable
IPXIP6 offloads.

> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>

Thanks for all your hard work on this!

Tom

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