Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2 V3] net: driver: use NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE masks directly
From: Michał Mirosław <hidden>
Date: 2011-05-11 16:57:38
2011/5/11 Shan Wei [off-list ref]:
quoted hunk
For loopback device can support any offload, so directly using NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE offload mask is enough safe. And as Michał Mirosław suggested, add NETIF_F_HIGHDMA to hw_features. For virtio_net driver, safely using NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE offload mask for bit operation. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <redacted> --- drivers/net/loopback.c | 16 +++++----------- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index 4ce9e5f..e6cccec 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c@@ -165,17 +165,11 @@ static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)dev->type = ARPHRD_LOOPBACK; /* 0x0001*/ dev->flags = IFF_LOOPBACK; dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE; - dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_ALL_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO; - dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST - | NETIF_F_ALL_TSO - | NETIF_F_UFO - | NETIF_F_NO_CSUM - | NETIF_F_RXCSUM - | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA - | NETIF_F_LLTX - | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL - | NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED - | NETIF_F_LOOPBACK; + dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA; + dev->features = dev->hw_features | NETIF_F_SG + | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_NO_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM + | NETIF_F_LLTX | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL + | NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED | NETIF_F_LOOPBACK; dev->ethtool_ops = &loopback_ethtool_ops; dev->header_ops = ð_header_ops; dev->netdev_ops = &loopback_ops;
[...] Looks ok. For loopback, more features are actually changeable - only last 4 are really forced here. Best Regards, Michał Mirosław