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Commit dfd8645e authored by Tom Herbert's avatar Tom Herbert Committed by David S. Miller
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vxlan: Remote checksum offload

Add support for remote checksum offload in VXLAN. This uses a
reserved bit to indicate that RCO is being done, and uses the low order
reserved eight bits of the VNI to hold the start and offset values in a
compressed manner.

Start is encoded in the low order seven bits of VNI. This is start >> 1
so that the checksum start offset is 0-254 using even values only.
Checksum offset (transport checksum field) is indicated in the high
order bit in the low order byte of the VNI. If the bit is set, the
checksum field is for UDP (so offset = start + 6), else checksum
field is for TCP (so offset = start + 16). Only TCP and UDP are
supported in this implementation.

Remote checksum offload for VXLAN is described in:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-vxlan-rco-00



Tested by running 200 TCP_STREAM connections with VXLAN (over IPv4).

With UDP checksums and Remote Checksum Offload
  IPv4
      Client
        11.84% CPU utilization
      Server
        12.96% CPU utilization
      9197 Mbps
  IPv6
      Client
        12.46% CPU utilization
      Server
        14.48% CPU utilization
      8963 Mbps

With UDP checksums, no remote checksum offload
  IPv4
      Client
        15.67% CPU utilization
      Server
        14.83% CPU utilization
      9094 Mbps
  IPv6
      Client
        16.21% CPU utilization
      Server
        14.32% CPU utilization
      9058 Mbps

No UDP checksums
  IPv4
      Client
        15.03% CPU utilization
      Server
        23.09% CPU utilization
      9089 Mbps
  IPv6
      Client
        16.18% CPU utilization
      Server
        26.57% CPU utilization
       8954 Mbps

Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a2b12f3c
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