SCTP sockets originated in a VRF can improve their performance if CRC32c computation is delegated to underlying devices: update device features, setting NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC. Iterating the following command in the topology proposed with [1],
# ip vrf exec vrf-h2 netperf -H 192.0.2.1 -t SCTP_STREAM -- -m 10K the measured throughput in Mbit/s improved from 2395 ± 1% to 2720 ± 1%. [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg486007.html Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcara...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/vrf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/vrf.c b/drivers/net/vrf.c index 90b5f3900c22..f93547f257fb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vrf.c +++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ static void vrf_setup(struct net_device *dev) /* enable offload features */ dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE; - dev->features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM; + dev->features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC; dev->features |= NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA; dev->hw_features = dev->features; -- 2.17.0
