** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Mellanox is requesting a backport of the following commit IDs from 5.3
back to 4.15.
- Netdevice HW MPLS features are not passed from device driver's netdevice to
- upper netdevice, specifically VLAN and bonding netdevice which are created
- by the kernel when needed.
+ Netdevice HW MPLS features are not passed from device driver's netdevice
+ to upper netdevice, specifically VLAN and bonding netdevice which are
+ created by the kernel when needed.
- This prevents enablement and usage of HW offloads, such as TSO and
checksumming
- for MPLS tagged traffic when running via VLAN or bonding interface.
+ This prevents enablement and usage of HW offloads, such as TSO and
+ checksumming for MPLS tagged traffic when running via VLAN or bonding
+ interface.
- The patches introduce changes to the initialization steps of the VLAN and
- bonding
- netdevices to inherit the MPLS features from lower netdevices to allow the HW
- offloads.
+ The patches introduce changes to the initialization steps of the VLAN and
+ bonding netdevices to inherit the MPLS features from lower netdevices to
allow the HW offloads.
Ariel Levkovich (2):
- net: bonding: Inherit MPLS features from slave devices
- net: vlan: Inherit MPLS features from parent device
+ net: bonding: Inherit MPLS features from slave devices
+ net: vlan: Inherit MPLS features from parent device
- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 +++++++++++
- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 1 +
- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
+ drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 +++++++++++
+ net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 1 +
+ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg299084.html
Commit IDs (All landed in 5.3)
600bb0318c18e9616d97ad123caaa7c5f7bf222c
8b6912a5019356d7adb1b8a146c9eef5e679bf98
2e770b507ccde8eedc129946e4b78ceed0a22df2
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Backport MPLS patches from 5.3 to 4.15
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