xen-netback: add support for IPv6 checksum offload from guest
For performance of VM to VM traffic on a single host it is better to avoid
calculation of TCP/UDP checksum in the sending frontend. To allow this this
patch adds the code necessary to set up partial checksum for IPv6 packets
and xenstore flag feature-ipv6-csum-offload to advertise that fact to
frontends.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
index ad27b15..108e752 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -105,6 +105,15 @@
goto abort_transaction;
}
+ /* We support partial checksum setup for IPv6 packets */
+ err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
+ "feature-ipv6-csum-offload",
+ "%d", 1);
+ if (err) {
+ message = "writing feature-ipv6-csum-offload";
+ goto abort_transaction;
+ }
+
/* We support rx-copy path. */
err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
"feature-rx-copy", "%d", 1);