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[precise,sru,2/5] veth: extend device features

Message ID 1395781387-10928-3-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com
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Chris J Arges March 25, 2014, 9:03 p.m. UTC 
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1201869

veth is lacking most modern facilities, like SG, checksums, TSO.

It makes sense to extend dev->features to get them, or GRO aggregation
is defeated by a forced segmentation.

Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 8093315a91340bca52549044975d8c7f673b28a1)

Conflicts:

	drivers/net/veth.c
---
 drivers/net/veth.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 675a12c..d123597 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -239,6 +239,10 @@  static const struct net_device_ops veth_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
 };
 
+#define VETH_FEATURES (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_ALL_TSO |    \
+		       NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA | \
+		       NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX)
+
 static void veth_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	ether_setup(dev);
@@ -248,9 +252,10 @@  static void veth_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->netdev_ops = &veth_netdev_ops;
 	dev->ethtool_ops = &veth_ethtool_ops;
 	dev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
+	dev->features |= VETH_FEATURES;
 	dev->destructor = veth_dev_free;
 
-	dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_NO_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
+	dev->hw_features = VETH_FEATURES;
 }
 
 /*