There's nothing that prevent passing the device features of virtio_net to its vlan device. So this patch simply passes those to vlan device to benefit from advanced features.
Netperf shows better sending performance for vlan device since TSO can work on vlan now. before: netperf -H 192.168.5.2 MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.5.2 () 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 4162.35 after: netperf -H 192.168.5.2 MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.5.2 () 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 9365.42 Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index f7d67e8..8fdfde6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1511,6 +1511,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) /* (!csum && gso) case will be fixed by register_netdev() */ } + dev->vlan_features = dev->features; + /* Configuration may specify what MAC to use. Otherwise random. */ if (virtio_config_val_len(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC, offsetof(struct virtio_net_config, mac), -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
