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net: Make UFO on master device independent of attached devices

Message ID 1254954265.31575.191.camel@w-sridhar.beaverton.ibm.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Sridhar Samudrala Oct. 7, 2009, 10:24 p.m. UTC
Now that software UFO is supported, UFO can be enabled on master
devices like bridge, bond even though the attached device doesn't
support this feature in hardware.

This allows UFO to be used between KVM host and guest even when a
physical interface attached to the bridge doesn't support UFO.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
 


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Comments

Herbert Xu Oct. 7, 2009, 11:41 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:24:25PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> Now that software UFO is supported, UFO can be enabled on master
> devices like bridge, bond even though the attached device doesn't
> support this feature in hardware.
> 
> This allows UFO to be used between KVM host and guest even when a
> physical interface attached to the bridge doesn't support UFO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
David Miller Oct. 8, 2009, 5:01 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:24:25 -0700

> Now that software UFO is supported, UFO can be enabled on master
> devices like bridge, bond even though the attached device doesn't
> support this feature in hardware.
> 
> This allows UFO to be used between KVM host and guest even when a
> physical interface attached to the bridge doesn't support UFO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5483,7 +5483,7 @@  unsigned long netdev_increment_features(unsigned long all, unsigned long one,
 	one |= NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM;
 
 	one |= all & NETIF_F_ONE_FOR_ALL;
-	all &= one | NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_GSO;
+	all &= one | NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_UFO;
 	all |= one & mask & NETIF_F_ONE_FOR_ALL;
 
 	return all;