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geneve: Use GRO cells infrastructure.
authorJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:54:40 +0000 (16:54 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:44:29 +0000 (13:44 -0700)
commit8e816df87997bb0c40122d5df621423b445c4fe6
tree902d4f8cb0b72e64cfdf6604263fe0fb500c0fb6
parentc30da497893718abc6cec4f1d34d35875200edee
geneve: Use GRO cells infrastructure.

Geneve can benefit from GRO at the device level in a manner similar
to other tunnels, especially as hardware offloads are still emerging.

After this patch, aggregated frames are seen on the tunnel interface.
Single stream throughput nearly doubles in ideal circumstances (on
old hardware).

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/geneve.c