From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lariel@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Support MPLS features in bonding and vlan net devices
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:49:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190604.144952.1353373326253870063.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1559601394-5363-1-git-send-email-lariel@mellanox.com>
From: Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 22:36:45 +0000
> Netdevice HW MPLS features are not passed from device driver's netdevice to
> upper netdevice, specifically VLAN and bonding netdevice which are created
> by the kernel when needed.
>
> This prevents enablement and usage of HW offloads, such as TSO and checksumming
> for MPLS tagged traffic when running via VLAN or bonding interface.
>
> The patches introduce changes to the initialization steps of the VLAN and bonding
> netdevices to inherit the MPLS features from lower netdevices to allow the HW
> offloads.
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-04 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-03 22:36 [PATCH net-next 0/2] Support MPLS features in bonding and vlan net devices Ariel Levkovich
2019-06-03 22:36 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: bonding: Inherit MPLS features from slave devices Ariel Levkovich
2019-06-03 22:36 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: vlan: Inherit MPLS features from parent device Ariel Levkovich
2019-06-04 21:49 ` David Miller [this message]
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