[PATCHv6 net-next 0/3] sunvnet: add jumbo frames support
From: David L Stevens <hidden>
Date: 2014-09-18 00:10:11
This patch set updates the sunvnet driver to version 1.6 of the VIO protocol to support per-port exchange of MTU information and allow non-standard MTU sizes, including jumbo frames. Using large MTUs shows a > 4X throughput improvement Linux-Solaris and > 8X throughput improvement Linux-Linux. Changes from v5: - fixed comment per Sowmini Varadhan [off-list ref] Changes from v4: - changed VNET_MAXPACKET per David Laight [off-list ref] - added cookies to support non-contiguous buffers of max size Changes from v3: - added version functions per Dave Miller [off-list ref] - moved rmtu to vnet_port per Dave Miller [off-list ref] - explicitly set options bits and capability flags to 0 per Raghuram Kothakota [off-list ref] Changes from v2: - make checkpatch clean Changes from v1: - fix brace formatting per Dave Miller [off-list ref] David L Stevens (3): sunvnet: upgrade to VIO protocol version 1.6 sunvnet: allow admin to set sunvnet MTU sunvnet: generate ICMP PTMUD messages for smaller port MTUs arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h | 44 ++++++++++- arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/viohs.c | 14 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.h | 7 ++- 5 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)