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authorEric Dumazet2012-07-17 14:19:48 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2012-07-18 18:31:25 +0200
commitb6fe83e9525a03b3141e5857eb7d8af219db94e5 (patch)
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parentnet: qmi_wwan: make dynamic device IDs work (diff)
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bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability
Some workloads greatly benefit of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability on output net device, avoiding dirtying dst refcount. bonding currently disables IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE unconditionally. If all slaves have the IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE bit set, then bonding master can also have it in its priv_flags Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 1eb3979d0af5..3960b1b26178 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1382,6 +1382,7 @@ static void bond_compute_features(struct bonding *bond)
netdev_features_t vlan_features = BOND_VLAN_FEATURES;
unsigned short max_hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN;
int i;
+ unsigned int flags, dst_release_flag = IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
read_lock(&bond->lock);
@@ -1392,6 +1393,7 @@ static void bond_compute_features(struct bonding *bond)
vlan_features = netdev_increment_features(vlan_features,
slave->dev->vlan_features, BOND_VLAN_FEATURES);
+ dst_release_flag &= slave->dev->priv_flags;
if (slave->dev->hard_header_len > max_hard_header_len)
max_hard_header_len = slave->dev->hard_header_len;
}
@@ -1400,6 +1402,9 @@ done:
bond_dev->vlan_features = vlan_features;
bond_dev->hard_header_len = max_hard_header_len;
+ flags = bond_dev->priv_flags & ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
+ bond_dev->priv_flags = flags | dst_release_flag;
+
read_unlock(&bond->lock);
netdev_change_features(bond_dev);