netdev - [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: propagate NETIF_F

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Message-ID: <1285238771.2864.38.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:46:11 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	yi.zou@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: propagate NETIF_F_HIGHDMA to vlans

Automatically allows vlans to get NETIF_F_HIGHDMA if underlying device
supports it.

On 32bit arches (and more precisely if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled), it
can help to reduce cost of illegal_highdma() and __skb_linearize()
calls.

Tested on tg3 , bnx2, bonding, this worked very well.

This is a generalization of a patch provided by Yi Zou & Jeff Kirsher.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 2c7934f..e0c0b86 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5058,10 +5058,11 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)
 		dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO;
 
-	/* Enable GRO for vlans by default if dev->features has GRO also.
-	 * vlan_dev_init() will do the dev->features check.
+	/* Enable GRO and NETIF_F_HIGHDMA for vlans by default,
+	 * vlan_dev_init() will do the dev->features check, so these features
+	 * are enabled only if supported by underlying device.
 	 */
-	dev->vlan_features |= NETIF_F_GRO;
+	dev->vlan_features |= (NETIF_F_GRO | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA);
 
 	ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev);
 	ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);


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