[PATCH 3.2 179/199] netvsc: reduce maximum GSO size

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Mar 10 2017 - 06:58:32 EST


3.2.87-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: stephen hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a50af86dd49ee1851d1ccf06dd0019c05b95e297 ]

Hyper-V (and Azure) support using NVGRE which requires some extra space
for encapsulation headers. Because of this the largest allowed TSO
packet is reduced.

For older releases, hard code a fixed reduced value. For next release,
there is a better solution which uses result of host offload
negotiation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ struct net_device_context {
/* Need this many pages to handle worst case fragmented packet */
#define PACKET_PAGES_HIWATER (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2)

+/* Restrict GSO size to account for NVGRE */
+#define NETVSC_GSO_MAX_SIZE 62768
+
static int ring_size = 128;
module_param(ring_size, int, S_IRUGO);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ring_size, "Ring buffer size (# of pages)");
@@ -363,6 +366,7 @@ static int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device

SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(net, &ethtool_ops);
SET_NETDEV_DEV(net, &dev->device);
+ netif_set_gso_max_size(net, NETVSC_GSO_MAX_SIZE);

ret = register_netdev(net);
if (ret != 0) {