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authorAnanda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com>2005-10-18 15:46:41 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>2005-10-28 16:30:00 -0200
commite89e9cf539a28df7d0eb1d0a545368e9920b34ac (patch)
treeaae6a825f351ce931fcd30f1a865ebe65227c4b8 /net/ipv4
parentde5144164f6242ccfa8c9b64eec570564f5eaf14 (diff)
[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: ------------------------------------------- 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ip_output.c83
1 files changed, 78 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 87e350069ab..17758234a3e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ int ip_output(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
IP_INC_STATS(IPSTATS_MIB_OUTREQUESTS);
- if (skb->len > dst_mtu(skb->dst) && !skb_shinfo(skb)->tso_size)
+ if (skb->len > dst_mtu(skb->dst) &&
+ !(skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size || skb_shinfo(skb)->tso_size))
return ip_fragment(skb, ip_finish_output);
else
return ip_finish_output(skb);
@@ -688,6 +689,60 @@ csum_page(struct page *page, int offset, int copy)
return csum;
}
+inline int ip_ufo_append_data(struct sock *sk,
+ int getfrag(void *from, char *to, int offset, int len,
+ int odd, struct sk_buff *skb),
+ void *from, int length, int hh_len, int fragheaderlen,
+ int transhdrlen, int mtu,unsigned int flags)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+ int err;
+
+ /* There is support for UDP fragmentation offload by network
+ * device, so create one single skb packet containing complete
+ * udp datagram
+ */
+ if ((skb = skb_peek_tail(&sk->sk_write_queue)) == NULL) {
+ skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk,
+ hh_len + fragheaderlen + transhdrlen + 20,
+ (flags & MSG_DONTWAIT), &err);
+
+ if (skb == NULL)
+ return err;
+
+ /* reserve space for Hardware header */
+ skb_reserve(skb, hh_len);
+
+ /* create space for UDP/IP header */
+ skb_put(skb,fragheaderlen + transhdrlen);
+
+ /* initialize network header pointer */
+ skb->nh.raw = skb->data;
+
+ /* initialize protocol header pointer */
+ skb->h.raw = skb->data + fragheaderlen;
+
+ skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_HW;
+ skb->csum = 0;
+ sk->sk_sndmsg_off = 0;
+ }
+
+ err = skb_append_datato_frags(sk,skb, getfrag, from,
+ (length - transhdrlen));
+ if (!err) {
+ /* specify the length of each IP datagram fragment*/
+ skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size = (mtu - fragheaderlen);
+ __skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_write_queue, skb);
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+ /* There is not enough support do UFO ,
+ * so follow normal path
+ */
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return err;
+}
+
/*
* ip_append_data() and ip_append_page() can make one large IP datagram
* from many pieces of data. Each pieces will be holded on the socket
@@ -777,6 +832,15 @@ int ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
csummode = CHECKSUM_HW;
inet->cork.length += length;
+ if (((length > mtu) && (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP)) &&
+ (rt->u.dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_UFO)) {
+
+ if(ip_ufo_append_data(sk, getfrag, from, length, hh_len,
+ fragheaderlen, transhdrlen, mtu, flags))
+ goto error;
+
+ return 0;
+ }
/* So, what's going on in the loop below?
*
@@ -1008,14 +1072,23 @@ ssize_t ip_append_page(struct sock *sk, struct page *page,
return -EINVAL;
inet->cork.length += size;
+ if ((sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_UDP) &&
+ (rt->u.dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_UFO))
+ skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size = (mtu - fragheaderlen);
+
while (size > 0) {
int i;
- /* Check if the remaining data fits into current packet. */
- len = mtu - skb->len;
- if (len < size)
- len = maxfraglen - skb->len;
+ if (skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size)
+ len = size;
+ else {
+
+ /* Check if the remaining data fits into current packet. */
+ len = mtu - skb->len;
+ if (len < size)
+ len = maxfraglen - skb->len;
+ }
if (len <= 0) {
struct sk_buff *skb_prev;
char *data;