From e5a4a72d4f88f4389e9340d383ca67031d1b8536 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennert Buytenhek Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 01:23:10 -0700 Subject: net: use software GSO for SG+CSUM capable netdevices If a netdevice does not support hardware GSO, allowing the stack to use GSO anyway and then splitting the GSO skb into MSS-sized pieces as it is handed to the netdevice for transmitting is likely still a win as far as throughput and/or CPU usage are concerned, since it reduces the number of trips through the output path. This patch enables the use of GSO on any netdevice that supports SG. If a GSO skb is then sent to a netdevice that supports SG but does not support hardware GSO, net/core/dev.c:dev_hard_start_xmit() will take care of doing the necessary GSO segmentation in software. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index da7acacf02b..cbf80098980 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3988,6 +3988,10 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) } } + /* Enable software GSO if SG is supported. */ + if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG) + dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO; + netdev_initialize_kobject(dev); ret = netdev_register_kobject(dev); if (ret) -- cgit v1.2.3