[net-next PATCH 0/2] vlan TSO support for virtio-net

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 05:42:07 EST


This series simply enable the vlan TSO support for virtio-net by just initialize
vlan_features for virtio-net and tun which allows vlan TSO packets to be
processed in both TX and RX path for virtio-net.

Netperf shows great improvements on stream tests:

Before:
Guest sending: 4162.35 10^6bits/sec
Guest receiving: 2786.67 10^6bit/sec

After:
Guest sending: 9365.42 10^6bits/sec
Guest receiving: 8085.49 10^6bit/sec

Jason Wang (2):
virtio-net: initialize vlan_features
tuntap: initialize vlan_features

drivers/net/tun.c | 1 +
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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