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Commit 0c1dd2a1 authored by Eran Ben Elisha's avatar Eran Ben Elisha Committed by David S. Miller
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net: ipv6/gre: Add GRO support



Add GRO capability for IPv6 GRE tunnel and ip6erspan tap, via gro_cells
infrastructure.

Performance testing: 55% higher badwidth.
Measuring bandwidth of 1 thread IPv4 TCP traffic over IPv6 GRE tunnel
while GRO on the physical interface is disabled.
CPU: Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge)
NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]
Before (GRO not working in tunnel) : 2.47 Gbits/sec
After  (GRO working in tunnel)     : 3.85 Gbits/sec

Signed-off-by: default avatarEran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 6f2f8212
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