This patch series updates the existing segmentation offload code for
tunnels to make better use of existing and updated GSO checksum
computation. This is done primarily through two mechanisms. First we
maintain a separate checksum in the GSO context block of the sk_buff. This
allows us to maintain two checksum values, one offloaded with values stored
in csum_start and csum_offset, and one computed and tracked in
SKB_GSO_CB(skb)->csum. By maintaining these two values we are able to take
advantage of the same sort of math used in local checksum offload so that
we can provide both inner and outer checksums with minimal overhead.
Below is the performance for a netperf session between an ixgbe PF and VF
on the same host but in different namespaces. As can be seen a significant
gain in performance can be had from allowing the use of Tx checksum offload
on the inner headers while performing a software offload on the outer
header computation:
Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand
Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % U us/KB us/KB
Before:
87380 16384 16384 10.00 12844.38 9.30 -1.00 0.712 -1.00
After:
87380 16384 16384 10.00 13216.63 6.78 -1.00 0.504 -1.000
Changes from v1:
* Dropped use of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for remote checksum offload
* Left encap_hdr_csum as it will likely be needed in future for SCTP GSO
* Broke the changes out over many more patches
* Updated GRE segmentation to more closely match UDP tunnel segmentation
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Alexander Duyck (10):
net: Drop unecessary enc_features variable from tunnel segmentation
functions
net: Move GSO csum into SKB_GSO_CB
net: Update remote checksum segmentation to support use of GSO checksum
net: Store checksum result for offloaded GSO checksums
net: Move skb_has_shared_frag check out of GRE code and into segmentation
gre: Use GSO flags to determine csum need instead of GRE flags
gre: Use inner_proto to obtain inner header protocol
udp: Clean up the use of flags in UDP segmentation offload
udp: Use uh->len instead of skb->len to compute checksum in segmentation
net: Allow tunnels to use inner checksum offloads with outer checksums
needed
include/linux/skbuff.h | 29 +++++++++++----
net/core/skbuff.c | 34 +++++++++++-------
net/ipv4/gre_offload.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c | 8 +++-
net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
5 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
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