Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2011-08-20

net: rps: support 802.1Q

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From: Changli Gao <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-19 05:06:45
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

For the 802.1Q packets, if the NIC doesn't support hw-accel-vlan-rx, RPS
won't inspect the internal 4 tuples to generate skb->rxhash, so this kind
of traffic can't get any benefit from RPS.

This patch adds the support for 802.1Q to RPS.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <redacted>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ead0366..be7ee50 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2529,6 +2529,7 @@ void __skb_get_rxhash(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	int nhoff, hash = 0, poff;
 	const struct ipv6hdr *ip6;
 	const struct iphdr *ip;
+	const struct vlan_hdr *vlan;
 	u8 ip_proto;
 	u32 addr1, addr2;
 	u16 proto;
@@ -2565,6 +2566,13 @@ again:
 		addr2 = (__force u32) ip6->daddr.s6_addr32[3];
 		nhoff += 40;
 		break;
+	case __constant_htons(ETH_P_8021Q):
+		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*vlan) + nhoff))
+			goto done;
+		vlan = (const struct vlan_hdr *) (skb->data + nhoff);
+		proto = vlan->h_vlan_encapsulated_proto;
+		nhoff += sizeof(*vlan);
+		goto again;
 	default:
 		goto done;
 	}
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