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| author | Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> | 2011-06-10 00:56:17 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-06-11 15:57:47 -0700 |
| commit | 10a8d94a95742bb15b4e617ee9884bb4381362be (patch) | |
| tree | 768f2d92be0e12bca791bcb901ad4bdedc7d8a76 /include/linux/virtio_net.h | |
| parent | 40d15cd06e87722b1cc27d56c8274617580f2c56 (diff) | |
virtio_net: introduce VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID
There's no need for the guest to validate the checksum if it have been
validated by host nics. So this patch introduces a new flag -
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID which is used to bypass the checksum
examing in guest. The backend (tap/macvtap) may set this flag when
met skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to save cpu utilization.
No feature negotiation is needed as old driver just ignore this flag.
Iperf shows 12%-30% performance improvement for UDP traffic. For TCP,
when gro is on no difference as it produces skb with partial
checksum. But when gro is disabled, 20% or even higher improvement
could be measured by netperf.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/virtio_net.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/virtio_net.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h index 136040bba3e3..970d5a2a9047 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct virtio_net_config { * specify GSO or CSUM features, you can simply ignore the header. */ struct virtio_net_hdr { #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM 1 // Use csum_start, csum_offset +#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID 2 // Csum is valid __u8 flags; #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE 0 // Not a GSO frame #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV4 1 // GSO frame, IPv4 TCP (TSO) |