tunneling: Add generic Tunnel segmentation.

Adds generic tunneling offloading support for IPv4-UDP based
tunnels.
GSO type is added to request this offload for a skb.
netdev feature NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL is added for hardware offloaded
udp-tunnel support. Currently no device supports this feature,
software offload is used.

This can be used by tunneling protocols like VXLAN.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Pravin B Shelar 2013-03-07 13:21:51 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent aefbd2b3c2
commit 7313626745
8 changed files with 111 additions and 30 deletions

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@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ enum {
NETIF_F_TSO6_BIT, /* ... TCPv6 segmentation */
NETIF_F_FSO_BIT, /* ... FCoE segmentation */
NETIF_F_GSO_GRE_BIT, /* ... GRE with TSO */
/**/NETIF_F_GSO_LAST, /* [can't be last bit, see GSO_MASK] */
NETIF_F_GSO_RESERVED2 /* ... free (fill GSO_MASK to 8 bits) */
= NETIF_F_GSO_LAST,
NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_BIT, /* ... UDP TUNNEL with TSO */
/**/NETIF_F_GSO_LAST = /* last bit, see GSO_MASK */
NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_BIT,
NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC_BIT, /* FCoE CRC32 */
NETIF_F_SCTP_CSUM_BIT, /* SCTP checksum offload */
@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ enum {
#define NETIF_F_RXFCS __NETIF_F(RXFCS)
#define NETIF_F_RXALL __NETIF_F(RXALL)
#define NETIF_F_GRE_GSO __NETIF_F(GSO_GRE)
#define NETIF_F_UDP_TUNNEL __NETIF_F(UDP_TUNNEL)
/* Features valid for ethtool to change */
/* = all defined minus driver/device-class-related */