From: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/3] sunvnet: add jumbo frames support
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:13:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54137E29.7020604@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 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 | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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