netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] vlan: Mask off vlan acceleration features on vlan device.

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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:03:47 -0400
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] vlan: Mask off vlan acceleration features on vlan
 device.

On 03/26/2014 05:10 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:28:31 -0400
> 
>> Some drivers incorrectly assign vlan acceleration features to
>> vlan_features thus causing issues for Q-in-Q vlan configurations.
>> Prevent this once and for all by masking off acceleration features
>> for vlan devices until such time as we support stacked acceleration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
> 
> So what if we do have chips that can offload Q-in-Q?  Will we use
> a new flag?
> 

If there are chips that can take both the inner and outer tags an put
both vlan headers on the packet, then we'll need a lot more then just
a new flag to support that since the skbs will need to carry 2 vlan_tci
values in that case.

With this patch you can still offload the outer tag, whether STAG and
or CTAG (old Q-in-Q), but the inner tag can't be offloaded.

-vlad
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