netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6/gre: Add GRO support

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Date:   Mon, 2 Apr 2018 07:42:39 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Eran Ben Elisha <eranlinuxmellanox@...il.com>
Cc:     Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6/gre: Add GRO support



On 04/02/2018 05:40 AM, Eran Ben Elisha wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/01/2018 06:17 AM, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>>> From: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
>>>
>>> Add GRO capability for IPv6 GRE tunnel and ip6erspan tap, via gro_cells
>>> infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Performance testing: 55% higher badwidth.
>>> Measuring bandwidth of 1 thread IPv4 TCP traffic over IPv6 GRE tunnel
>>> while GRO on the physical interface is disabled.
>>> CPU: Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
>>> NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]
>>> Before (GRO not working in tunnel) : 2.47 Gbits/sec
>>> After  (GRO working in tunnel)     : 3.85 Gbits/sec
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
>>> CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>> ---
>>
>>
>> Seems good, but why isn't this handled directly in GRO native layer ?
> ip6_tunnel and ip6_gre do not share initialization flow functions (unlike ipv4).
> Changing the ipv6 init infrastructure should not be part of this
> patch. we prefer to keep this one minimal, simple and safe.



Looking at gre_gro_receive() and gre_gro_complete() I could not see why they
could not be copied/pasted to IPv6.

Maybe give more details on the changelog, it is really not obvious.