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authorPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>2013-02-14 14:02:41 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-02-15 15:17:11 -0500
commit68c331631143f5f039baac99a650e0b9e1ea02b6 (patch)
treec69d73c5599aab5e92a8c99bc5343c9fc9ffbbd8 /net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c
parent05e8ef4ab2d8087d360e814d14da20b9f7fb2283 (diff)
downloadlinux-68c331631143f5f039baac99a650e0b9e1ea02b6.tar.gz
v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE
Following patch adds GRE protocol offload handler so that
skb_gso_segment() can segment GRE packets.
SKB GSO CB is added to keep track of total header length so that
skb_segment can push entire header. e.g. in case of GRE, skb_segment
need to push inner and outer headers to every segment.
New NETIF_F_GRE_GSO feature is added for devices which support HW
GRE TSO offload. Currently none of devices support it therefore GRE GSO
always fall backs to software GSO.

[ Compute pkt_len before ip_local_out() invocation. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c
index f26f0da7f095..8234c1dcdf72 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *ipv6_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		     ~(SKB_GSO_UDP |
 		       SKB_GSO_DODGY |
 		       SKB_GSO_TCP_ECN |
+		       SKB_GSO_GRE |
 		       SKB_GSO_TCPV6 |
 		       0)))
 		goto out;