net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic
authorGal Pressman <galp@mellanox.com>
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:49:36 +0000 (17:49 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:31:10 +0000 (20:31 +0100)
commit597181622e649b30a4c4d6bec4816d2f8987d25a
tree34c7e20387ea47ded9b06f0f2047aad45fb02e7a
parent2dc5654e6fbc46161c56058081258bd3ad8d1ab0
net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic

[ Upstream commit 2989ad1ec03021ee6d2193c35414f1d970a243de ]

The assumption that the next header field contains the transport
protocol is wrong for IPv6 packets with extension headers.
Instead, we should look the inner-most next header field in the buffer.
This will fix TSO offload for tunnels over IPv6 with extension headers.

Performance testing: 19.25x improvement, cool!
Measuring bandwidth of 16 threads TCP traffic over IPv6 GRE tap.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz
NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
TSO: Enabled
Before: 4,926.24  Mbps
Now   : 94,827.91 Mbps

Fixes: b3f63c3d5e2c ("net/mlx5e: Add netdev support for VXLAN tunneling")
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galp@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c