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Message-ID: <1308934302.3034.4.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:51:42 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
"therbert@...gle.com" <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][NET-NEXT PATCH 2/2] net: Add GSO to vlan_features
initialization
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:38 +0800, Shan Wei wrote:
> This patch is not a bug fix.
> Just add GSO to vlan_features initialization, and update comments.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
> net/core/dev.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 6b6ef14..becc1e5 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5478,11 +5478,12 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
> dev->features |= NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY;
> }
>
> - /* 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.
> + /* Enable GSO, GRO and NETIF_F_HIGHDMA for vlans by default,
> + * vlan_dev_fix_features() will do the features check,
> + * so NETIF_F_HIGHDMA feature is enabled only if supported
> + * by underlying device.
> */
> - dev->vlan_features |= (NETIF_F_GRO | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA);
> + dev->vlan_features |= (NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA);
>
> ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev);
> ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
Have you verified that GSO works correctly for VLAN devices if the
underlying device does not support VLAN tag insertion?
skb_gso_segment() has code to handle this case, but I suspect it's not
actually being exercised at the moment.
Ben.
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