From: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv3 net-next 0/3] sunvnet: add jumbo frames support
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:00:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54146A1B.8060207@oracle.com> (raw)
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 v2:
- make checkpatch clean
Changes from v1:
- fix brace formatting per Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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 | 19 ++++-
arch/sparc/kernel/viohs.c | 14 +++-
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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