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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-10-05 21:11:27 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-07 01:56:28 +0400
commitfcbeb976d7ce783fd58e63e61c196d9a8912b3be (patch)
treec6dde6923e5316b2bfc4bdb04bd6643515cc1598 /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent9d31a7b9f9963e97e067e72ef13492e6ace7d345 (diff)
downloadlinux-fcbeb976d7ce783fd58e63e61c196d9a8912b3be.tar.xz
net: introduce netdevice gso_min_segs attribute
Some TSO engines might have a too heavy setup cost, that impacts performance on hosts sending small bursts (2 MSS per packet). This patch adds a device gso_min_segs, allowing drivers to set a minimum segment size for TSO packets, according to the NIC performance. Tested on a mlx4 NIC, this allows to get a ~110% increase of throughput when sending 2 MSS per packet. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 22d54b9b700d..2df86f50261c 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1416,6 +1416,8 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
* @gso_max_size: Maximum size of generic segmentation offload
* @gso_max_segs: Maximum number of segments that can be passed to the
* NIC for GSO
+ * @gso_min_segs: Minimum number of segments that can be passed to the
+ * NIC for GSO
*
* @dcbnl_ops: Data Center Bridging netlink ops
* @num_tc: Number of traffic classes in the net device
@@ -1666,7 +1668,7 @@ struct net_device {
unsigned int gso_max_size;
#define GSO_MAX_SEGS 65535
u16 gso_max_segs;
-
+ u16 gso_min_segs;
#ifdef CONFIG_DCB
const struct dcbnl_rtnl_ops *dcbnl_ops;
#endif