From 6a674e9c75b17e7a88ff15b3c2e269eed54f7cfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Gasparakis Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 14:14:14 +0000 Subject: net: Add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulation This patch adds support in the kernel for offloading in the NIC Tx and Rx checksumming for encapsulated packets (such as VXLAN and IP GRE). For Tx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set the right bits in netdev->hw_enc_features. The protocol driver will have to set the skb->encapsulation bit and populate the inner headers, so the NIC driver will use those inner headers to calculate the csum in hardware. For Rx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set again the skb->encapsulation flag and the skb->ip_csum to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In that case the protocol driver should push the decapsulated packet up to the stack, again with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In ether case, the protocol driver should set the skb->encapsulation flag back to zero. Finally the protocol driver should have NETIF_F_RXCSUM flag set in its features. Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 18c5dc98f6dc..c6a14d4d1396 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1063,6 +1063,12 @@ struct net_device { netdev_features_t wanted_features; /* mask of features inheritable by VLAN devices */ netdev_features_t vlan_features; + /* mask of features inherited by encapsulating devices + * This field indicates what encapsulation offloads + * the hardware is capable of doing, and drivers will + * need to set them appropriately. + */ + netdev_features_t hw_enc_features; /* Interface index. Unique device identifier */ int ifindex; -- cgit v1.2.3