[PATCH v3 3/4] vxlan: capture inner headers during encapsulation

From: Joseph Gasparakis
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 20:49:32 EST


Allow VXLAN to make use of Tx checksum offloading and Tx scatter-gather.
The advantage to these two changes is that it also allows the VXLAN to
make use of GSO.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index ce77b8b..88b31f2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -876,6 +876,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
goto drop;
}

+ if (!skb->encapsulation) {
+ skb_reset_inner_headers(skb);
+ skb->encapsulation = 1;
+ }
+
/* Need space for new headers (invalidates iph ptr) */
if (skb_cow_head(skb, VXLAN_HEADROOM))
goto drop;
@@ -947,7 +952,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
vxlan_set_owner(dev, skb);

/* See iptunnel_xmit() */
- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
+ if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
+ skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
ip_select_ident(iph, &rt->dst, NULL);

err = ip_local_out(skb);
@@ -1168,6 +1174,8 @@ static void vxlan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
dev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
+ dev->features |= NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
+ dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;

spin_lock_init(&vxlan->hash_lock);
--
1.7.6.4

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