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Message-ID: <20130411095516.GB21362@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:55:17 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2] virtio-net: initialize vlan_features
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:32:21PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> There's nothing that prevent passing the device features of virtio_net to its
> vlan device. So this patch simply passes those to vlan device to benefit from
> advanced features.
>
> Netperf shows better sending performance for vlan device since TSO can work on
> vlan now.
>
> before:
> netperf -H 192.168.5.2
> MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.5.2 ()
> port 0 AF_INET : demo
> Recv Send Send
> Socket Socket Message Elapsed
> Size Size Size Time Throughput
> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
>
> 87380 16384 16384 10.00 4162.35
>
> after:
> netperf -H 192.168.5.2
> MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.5.2 ()
> port 0 AF_INET : demo
> Recv Send Send
> Socket Socket Message Elapsed
> Size Size Size Time Throughput
> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
>
> 87380 16384 16384 10.00 9365.42
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index f7d67e8..8fdfde6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -1511,6 +1511,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> /* (!csum && gso) case will be fixed by register_netdev() */
> }
>
> + dev->vlan_features = dev->features;
> +
> /* Configuration may specify what MAC to use. Otherwise random. */
> if (virtio_config_val_len(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC,
> offsetof(struct virtio_net_config, mac),
> --
> 1.7.1
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