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[net-next,2/2] tunnel: Inherit NETIF_F_SG for hw_enc_features.

Message ID 1362684488-1822-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Pravin B Shelar March 7, 2013, 7:28 p.m. UTC
Inherit scatergather feature for tunnel devices to avoid
copy for TSO packets of tunneling device like GRE.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
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 net/core/dev.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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David Miller March 9, 2013, 9:11 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2013 11:28:08 -0800

> Inherit scatergather feature for tunnel devices to avoid
> copy for TSO packets of tunneling device like GRE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index bb99993..90cee5b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5205,6 +5205,10 @@  int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
 	 */
 	dev->vlan_features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
 
+	/* Make NETIF_F_SG inheritable to tunnel devices.
+	 */
+	dev->hw_enc_features |= NETIF_F_SG;
+
 	ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev);
 	ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
 	if (ret)