From 10a8d94a95742bb15b4e617ee9884bb4381362be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Wang Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:56:17 +0000 Subject: virtio_net: introduce VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID There's no need for the guest to validate the checksum if it have been validated by host nics. So this patch introduces a new flag - VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID which is used to bypass the checksum examing in guest. The backend (tap/macvtap) may set this flag when met skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to save cpu utilization. No feature negotiation is needed as old driver just ignore this flag. Iperf shows 12%-30% performance improvement for UDP traffic. For TCP, when gro is on no difference as it produces skb with partial checksum. But when gro is disabled, 20% or even higher improvement could be measured by netperf. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/virtio_net.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/virtio_net.h') diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h index 136040bba3e3..970d5a2a9047 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct virtio_net_config { * specify GSO or CSUM features, you can simply ignore the header. */ struct virtio_net_hdr { #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM 1 // Use csum_start, csum_offset +#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID 2 // Csum is valid __u8 flags; #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE 0 // Not a GSO frame #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV4 1 // GSO frame, IPv4 TCP (TSO) -- cgit v1.2.1