From: Alexander Duyck <adu...@mirantis.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:13:39 -0700
> This patch fixes an issue I found in which we were dropping frames if we > had enabled checksums on GRE headers that were encapsulated by either FOU > or GUE. Without this patch I was barely able to get 1 Gb/s of throughput. > With this patch applied I am now at least getting around 6 Gb/s. > > The issue is due to the fact that with FOU or GUE applied we do not provide > a transport offset pointing to the GRE header, nor do we offload it in > software as the GRE header is completely skipped by GSO and treated like a > VXLAN or GENEVE type header. As such we need to prevent the stack from > generating it and also prevent GRE from generating it via any interface we > create. > > Fixes: c3483384ee511 ("gro: Allow tunnel stacking in the case of FOU/GUE") > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <adu...@mirantis.com> > --- > > v3: Basically the same patch as v1 and v2, but I am cutting it loose from > the IPv4 ID patch as that one will likely need to be resolved in > net-next. Applied, thanks Alexander.