I tested the proposed kernel and it solves the problem. I'm not sure if it is appropriate for me to change the tag though or if that should wait for a larger QA effort.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602755 Title: Tunnel offload indications not stripped from encapsulated packets, causing performance overhead Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: Commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=a09a4c8dd1ec7f830e1fb9e59eb72bddc965d168 Description: tunnels: Remove encapsulation offloads on decap. If a packet is either locally encapsulated or processed through GRO it is marked with the offloads that it requires. However, when it is decapsulated these tunnel offload indications are not removed. This means that if we receive an encapsulated TCP packet, aggregate it with GRO, decapsulate, and retransmit the resulting frame on a NIC that does not support encapsulation, we won't be able to take advantage of hardware offloads even though it is just a simple TCP packet at this point. This fixes the problem by stripping off encapsulation offload indications when packets are decapsulated. The performance impacts of this bug are significant. In a test where a Geneve encapsulated TCP stream is sent to a hypervisor, GRO'ed, decapsulated, and bridged to a VM performance is improved by 60% (5Gbps->8Gbps) as a result of avoiding unnecessary segmentation at the VM tap interface. Reported-by: Ramu Ramamurthy <srama...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Fixes: 68c33163 ("v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE") Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1602755/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
