4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com
[ 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 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c @@ -3038,6 +3038,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea struct sk_buff *skb, netdev_features_t features) { + unsigned int offset = 0; struct udphdr *udph; u16 proto; u16 port = 0; @@ -3047,7 +3048,7 @@ static netdev_features_t mlx5e_vxlan_fea 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;