From 10a8d94a95742bb15b4e617ee9884bb4381362be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Wang Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:56:17 +0000 Subject: virtio_net: introduce VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID There's no need for the guest to validate the checksum if it have been validated by host nics. So this patch introduces a new flag - VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID which is used to bypass the checksum examing in guest. The backend (tap/macvtap) may set this flag when met skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to save cpu utilization. No feature negotiation is needed as old driver just ignore this flag. Iperf shows 12%-30% performance improvement for UDP traffic. For TCP, when gro is on no difference as it produces skb with partial checksum. But when gro is disabled, 20% or even higher improvement could be measured by netperf. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/packet') diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 67f6749a0a45..b54ec41adea9 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -1685,6 +1685,8 @@ static int packet_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, vnet_hdr.flags = VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM; vnet_hdr.csum_start = skb_checksum_start_offset(skb); vnet_hdr.csum_offset = skb->csum_offset; + } else if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY) { + vnet_hdr.flags = VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID; } /* else everything is zero */ err = memcpy_toiovec(msg->msg_iov, (void *)&vnet_hdr, -- cgit v1.2.3