linux/net/core
Ananda Raju e89e9cf539 [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach
Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature.

1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik.
2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload)
3. udp sendfile support with UFO

This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP
datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device
driver to use the UFO interface.

UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface:
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UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the
IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This
will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to
MTU sized packets

1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using
dev->features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG

NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6.

2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine.
UFO packet will have a non-zero value for

"skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size"

skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP
fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware.

skb->data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]
contains the data payload. The skb->ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW
indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should
compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of
each fragmented IP packet.

For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in
skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating
IPv6 fragments.

Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (forwarded)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
..
Makefile [NETFILTER]: split net/core/netfilter.c into net/netfilter/*.c 2005-08-29 15:51:11 -07:00
datagram.c [NET]: Use non-recursive algorithm in skb_copy_datagram_iovec() 2005-09-27 15:22:35 -07:00
dev.c [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach 2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
dev_mcast.c
dst.c [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER 2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
dv.c
ethtool.c [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach 2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
filter.c [NET]: 2.6.13 breaks libpcap (and tcpdump) 2005-09-05 18:44:37 -07:00
flow.c [NET]: use __read_mostly on kmem_cache_t , DEFINE_SNMP_STAT pointers 2005-08-29 16:11:18 -07:00
gen_estimator.c
gen_stats.c
iovec.c
link_watch.c
neighbour.c [NET]: Wider use of for_each_*cpu() 2005-10-25 23:54:01 -02:00
net-sysfs.c
netpoll.c [IPV4]: Replace __in_dev_get with __in_dev_get_rcu/rtnl 2005-10-03 14:35:55 -07:00
pktgen.c [PKTGEN]: proc interface revision 2005-10-26 00:12:18 -02:00
request_sock.c [ICSK]: Introduce reqsk_queue_prune from code in tcp_synack_timer 2005-08-29 15:49:29 -07:00
rtnetlink.c [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create 2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00
scm.c
skbuff.c [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach 2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
sock.c [PATCH] gfp_t: net/* 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
stream.c
sysctl_net_core.c [NET]: Fix sparse warnings 2005-08-29 16:01:32 -07:00
utils.c [NET]: Fix sparse warnings 2005-08-29 16:01:32 -07:00
wireless.c [PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam 2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00