net/mlx5e: allow TSO on VXLAN over VLAN topologies
authorDavide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Thu, 9 Jan 2020 11:07:59 +0000 (12:07 +0100)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:28:23 +0000 (22:28 -0800)
since mlx5 hardware can segment correctly TSO packets on VXLAN over VLAN
topologies, CPU usage can improve significantly if we enable tunnel
offloads in dev->vlan_features, like it was done in the past with other
NIC drivers (e.g. mlx4, be2net and ixgbe).

Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c

index 78737fd42616df0f326ccf3582324bc182d20e13..87267c18ff8c651ec31191dab4bbff5ad15a4515 100644 (file)
@@ -4878,6 +4878,8 @@ static void mlx5e_build_nic_netdev(struct net_device *netdev)
                netdev->hw_enc_features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL |
                                           NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_CSUM;
                netdev->gso_partial_features = NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_CSUM;
+               netdev->vlan_features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL |
+                                        NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_CSUM;
        }
 
        if (mlx5e_tunnel_proto_supported(mdev, IPPROTO_GRE)) {