linux/include
Michael Chan fb1f5f79ae net: Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW.
Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW feature flag for NICs that support hardware
GRO.  With this flag, we can now independently turn on or off hardware
GRO when GRO is on.  Previously, drivers were using NETIF_F_GRO to
control hardware GRO and so it cannot be independently turned on or
off without affecting GRO.

Hardware GRO (just like GRO) guarantees that packets can be re-segmented
by TSO/GSO to reconstruct the original packet stream.  Logically,
GRO_HW should depend on GRO since it a subset, but we will let
individual drivers enforce this dependency as they see fit.

Since NETIF_F_GRO is not propagated between upper and lower devices,
NETIF_F_GRO_HW should follow suit since it is a subset of GRO.  In other
words, a lower device can independent have GRO/GRO_HW enabled or disabled
and no feature propagation is required.  This will preserve the current
GRO behavior.  This can be changed later if we decide to propagate GRO/
GRO_HW/RXCSUM from upper to lower devices.

Cc: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@cavium.com>
Cc: everest-linux-l2@cavium.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-19 10:38:36 -05:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpi-ec' into acpi 2017-11-30 13:37:29 +01:00
asm-generic add infrastructure for tagging functions as error injectable 2017-12-12 08:56:26 -08:00
clocksource arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-12-11 16:32:45 -08:00
drm drm: rework delayed connector cleanup in connector_iter 2017-12-13 22:59:00 +01:00
dt-bindings fixes/cleanups for rc1, non-desktop flags for VR 2017-11-23 21:04:56 -10:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Don't enable/disable physical timer access on VHE 2017-11-29 16:46:09 +01:00
linux net: Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW. 2017-12-19 10:38:36 -05:00
math-emu
media media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
memory
misc
net sock: Hide unused variable when !CONFIG_PROC_FS. 2017-12-19 09:58:14 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Updates for 4.15 kernel merge window 2017-11-15 14:54:53 -08:00
scsi scsi: libsas: align sata_device's rps_resp on a cacheline 2017-11-21 23:06:32 -05:00
soc We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix yet remaining issue with vmaster 0dB initialization 2017-11-22 12:34:56 +01:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-11-24 19:19:20 -10:00
trace Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-16 22:11:55 -05:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2017-12-18 10:51:06 -05:00
video fbdev changes for v4.15: 2017-11-20 21:50:24 -10:00
xen xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00