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| author | Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> | 2014-03-03 15:33:53 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-03-03 16:43:56 -0500 |
| commit | 8b4703e9bd1172a5f8244276ebb94302e6153e26 (patch) | |
| tree | ab97b77328acfe875d07aaa5d2c3edb3153d26d5 /drivers/net | |
| parent | 48235515c45c26159375df393d52c34a73bc6210 (diff) | |
macvlan: Add support for 'always_on' offload features
Macvlan currently inherits all of its features from the lower
device. When lower device disables offload support, this causes
macvlan to disable offload support as well. This causes
performance regression when using macvlan/macvtap in bridge
mode.
It can be easily demonstrated by creating 2 namespaces using
macvlan in bridge mode and running netperf between them:
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.0.0.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
87380 16384 16384 20.00 1204.61
To restore the performance, we add software offload features
to the list of "always_on" features for macvlan. This way
when a namespace or a guest using macvtap initially sends a
packet, this packet will not be segmented at macvlan level.
It will only be segmented when macvlan sends the packet
to the lower device.
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.0.0.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
87380 16384 16384 20.00 5507.35
Fixes: 6acf54f1cf0a6747bac9fea26f34cfc5a9029523 (macvtap: Add support of packet capture on macvtap device.)
Fixes: 797f87f83b60685ff8a13fa0572d2f10393c50d3 (macvlan: fix netdev feature propagation from lower device)
CC: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
CC: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
CC: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/macvlan.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index a5d21893670d..1831fb7cd017 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -506,6 +506,9 @@ static int macvlan_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu) static struct lock_class_key macvlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key; static struct lock_class_key macvlan_netdev_addr_lock_key; +#define ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES \ + (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM | NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE | NETIF_F_LLTX) + #define MACVLAN_FEATURES \ (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | \ NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST | \ @@ -539,7 +542,7 @@ static int macvlan_init(struct net_device *dev) dev->state = (dev->state & ~MACVLAN_STATE_MASK) | (lowerdev->state & MACVLAN_STATE_MASK); dev->features = lowerdev->features & MACVLAN_FEATURES; - dev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX; + dev->features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES; dev->gso_max_size = lowerdev->gso_max_size; dev->iflink = lowerdev->ifindex; dev->hard_header_len = lowerdev->hard_header_len; @@ -699,7 +702,7 @@ static netdev_features_t macvlan_fix_features(struct net_device *dev, features = netdev_increment_features(vlan->lowerdev->features, features, mask); - features |= NETIF_F_LLTX; + features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES; return features; } |