vxlan: vxlan dev should inherit lowerdev's gso_max_size
authorFelix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:56:43 +0000 (17:56 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:17:45 +0000 (09:17 +0100)
commit441f5af65244dd6585f1c364f1f4fbd00aacb64b
tree82f843ed5b8ac5cc8e0355964665b3b752a10df2
parent399a4f3c2b3f0c1812a04a4a9994ced8d1704c3d
vxlan: vxlan dev should inherit lowerdev's gso_max_size

[ Upstream commit d6acfeb17d030bb3907e77c048b0e7783ad8e5a9 ]

vxlan dev currently ignores lowerdev's gso_max_size, which adversely
affects TSO performance of liquidio if it's the lowerdev.  Egress TCP
packets' skb->len often exceed liquidio's advertised gso_max_size.  This
may happen on other NIC drivers.

Fix it by assigning lowerdev's gso_max_size to that of vxlan dev.  Might as
well do likewise for gso_max_segs.

Single flow TSO throughput of liquidio as lowerdev (using iperf3):

    Before the patch:    139 Mbps
    After the patch :   8.68 Gbps
    Percent increase:  6,144 %

Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/vxlan.c