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| author | Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> | 2013-02-14 14:02:41 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-02-15 15:17:11 -0500 |
| commit | 68c331631143f5f039baac99a650e0b9e1ea02b6 (patch) | |
| tree | c69d73c5599aab5e92a8c99bc5343c9fc9ffbbd8 /include | |
| parent | 05e8ef4ab2d8087d360e814d14da20b9f7fb2283 (diff) | |
| download | linux-68c331631143f5f039baac99a650e0b9e1ea02b6.tar.bz2 | |
v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE
Following patch adds GRE protocol offload handler so that
skb_gso_segment() can segment GRE packets.
SKB GSO CB is added to keep track of total header length so that
skb_segment can push entire header. e.g. in case of GRE, skb_segment
need to push inner and outer headers to every segment.
New NETIF_F_GRE_GSO feature is added for devices which support HW
GRE TSO offload. Currently none of devices support it therefore GRE GSO
always fall backs to software GSO.
[ Compute pkt_len before ip_local_out() invocation. -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdev_features.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 17 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h index 5ac32123035a..3dd39340430e 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h +++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ enum { NETIF_F_TSO_ECN_BIT, /* ... TCP ECN support */ NETIF_F_TSO6_BIT, /* ... TCPv6 segmentation */ NETIF_F_FSO_BIT, /* ... FCoE segmentation */ - NETIF_F_GSO_RESERVED1, /* ... free (fill GSO_MASK to 8 bits) */ + NETIF_F_GSO_GRE_BIT, /* ... GRE with TSO */ /**/NETIF_F_GSO_LAST, /* [can't be last bit, see GSO_MASK] */ NETIF_F_GSO_RESERVED2 /* ... free (fill GSO_MASK to 8 bits) */ = NETIF_F_GSO_LAST, @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ enum { #define NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED __NETIF_F(VLAN_CHALLENGED) #define NETIF_F_RXFCS __NETIF_F(RXFCS) #define NETIF_F_RXALL __NETIF_F(RXALL) +#define NETIF_F_GRE_GSO __NETIF_F(GSO_GRE) /* Features valid for ethtool to change */ /* = all defined minus driver/device-class-related */ diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index ca6ee7d93edb..821c7f45d2a7 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -314,6 +314,8 @@ enum { SKB_GSO_TCPV6 = 1 << 4, SKB_GSO_FCOE = 1 << 5, + + SKB_GSO_GRE = 1 << 6, }; #if BITS_PER_LONG > 32 @@ -2732,6 +2734,21 @@ static inline struct sec_path *skb_sec_path(struct sk_buff *skb) } #endif +/* Keeps track of mac header offset relative to skb->head. + * It is useful for TSO of Tunneling protocol. e.g. GRE. + * For non-tunnel skb it points to skb_mac_header() and for + * tunnel skb it points to outer mac header. */ +struct skb_gso_cb { + int mac_offset; +}; +#define SKB_GSO_CB(skb) ((struct skb_gso_cb *)(skb)->cb) + +static inline int skb_tnl_header_len(const struct sk_buff *inner_skb) +{ + return (skb_mac_header(inner_skb) - inner_skb->head) - + SKB_GSO_CB(inner_skb)->mac_offset; +} + static inline bool skb_is_gso(const struct sk_buff *skb) { return skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size; |