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Commit 6680ec68 authored by Jason Wang's avatar Jason Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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tuntap: hardware vlan tx support



Inspired by commit f09e2249 (macvtap: restore
vlan header on user read). This patch adds hardware vlan tx support for
tuntap. This is done by copying vlan header directly into userspace in
tun_put_user() instead of doing it through __vlan_put_tag() in
dev_hard_start_xmit(). This eliminates one unnecessary memmove() in
vlan_insert_tag() for 802.1ad and 802.1q traffic.

pktgen test shows about 20% improvement for 802.1q traffic:

Before:
  662149pps 317Mb/sec (317831520bps) errors: 0
After:
  801033pps 384Mb/sec (384495840bps) errors: 0

Cc: Basil Gor <basil.gor@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 024ec3de
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