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Commit e3cfc7e6 authored by Moshe Shemesh's avatar Moshe Shemesh Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5e: TX, Add geneve tunnel stateless offload support



Currently support only default geneve udp port (6081).
For the tx side, the HW is assisted by SW parsing, which sets the
headers offset to offload tunneled LSO and csum. Note that for udp
tunnels, we don't use special rx offloads, as rss on the outer headers
is enough, we support checksum complete and GRO takes care of
aggregation.

Geneve TSO BW and CPU load results (tested using iperf single tcp
stream).
In this patch we add TSO support over Geneve, so the "before" result
doesn't actually get to using the TSO HW offload even when turned on.
Tested on ConnectX-5, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @2.20GHz.

 __________________________________
| Before         | After           |
|________________|_________________|
| 12.6 Gbits/sec | 21.7 Gbits/sec  |
| 100% CPU load  | 61.5% CPU load  |
|________________|_________________|

Signed-off-by: default avatarMoshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
parent cac018b8
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