[net-next PATCH 2/2] tuntap: initialize vlan_features

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 05:42:17 EST


The vlan_features was zero which prevents vlan GSO packets to be transmitted to
userspace. This is suboptimal so enable this by initialize vlan_features for
tuntap.

Netperf shows better performance of guest receiving since vlan TSO works for
tuntap:

before:
netperf -H 192.168.5.4
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.5.4 ()
port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec

87380 16384 16384 10.01 2786.67

after:
netperf -H 192.168.5.4
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.5.4 ()
port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec

87380 16384 16384 10.00 8085.49

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 29538e6..316c759 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1656,6 +1656,7 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST |
TUN_USER_FEATURES;
dev->features = dev->hw_features;
+ dev->vlan_features = dev->features;

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tun->disabled);
err = tun_attach(tun, file);
--
1.7.1

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