From: Gal Pressman Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:49:36 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic X-Git-Tag: v4.14.11~57 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=597181622e649b30a4c4d6bec4816d2f8987d25a;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-exynos.git 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 Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c index cc11bbb..517727f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c @@ -3554,6 +3554,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_tunnel_features_check(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb, netdev_features_t features) { + unsigned int offset = 0; struct udphdr *udph; u8 proto; u16 port; @@ -3563,7 +3564,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_tunnel_features_check(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, proto = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol; break; case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): - proto = ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr; + proto = ipv6_find_hdr(skb, &offset, -1, NULL, NULL); break; default: goto out;