During initialization of vmxnet3, the state of LRO
gets out of sync with netdev->features.
This leads to very poor TCP performance in a IP forwarding
setup and is hitting many VMware users.
Simplified call sequence:
1. vmxnet3_declare_features() initializes "adapter->lro" to true.
2. The kernel automatically disables LRO if IP forwarding is enabled,
so vmxnet3_set_flags() gets called. This also updates netdev->features.
3. Now vmxnet3_setup_driver_shared() is called. "adapter->lro" is still
set to true and LRO gets enabled again, even though
netdev->features shows it's disabled.
Fix it by updating "adapter->lro", too.
The private vmxnet3 adapter flags are scheduled for removal
in net-next, see commit a0d2730c95
"net: vmxnet3: convert to hw_features".
Patch applies to 2.6.37 / 2.6.38 and 2.6.39-rc6.
Please CC: comments.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After commit d5dbda2380 "ethtool: Add
support for vlan accleration.", drivers that have NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX,
and/or NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX feature, but do not allow enable/disable vlan
acceleration via ethtool set_flags, always return -EINVAL from that
function. Fix by returning -EINVAL only if requested features do not
match current settings and can not be changed by driver.
Change any driver that define ethtool->set_flags to use
ethtool_invalid_flags() to avoid similar problems in the future
(also on drivers that do not have the problem).
Tested with modified (to reproduce this bug) myri10ge driver.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Access to cmd register is racey, especially in smp environments. Protect
it using a spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Bucchianeri <matthieu@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Show per-queue stats in ethtool -S output for vmxnet3 interface. Register dump
of ethtool should dump registers for all tx and rx queues.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If RSS is disabled, we can ifdef out some RSS specific code. This fixes
the compile error found by Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: Scott J. Goldman <scottjg@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add multiqueue support to vmxnet3 driver
This change adds multiqueue and thus receive side scaling support
to vmxnet3 device driver. Number of rx queues is limited to 1 in cases
where MSI is not configured or one MSIx vector is not available per rx
queue
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It's easier to just annotate the constants as little endian types and set/clear
the flags directly.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Only some netdev feature flags correspond directly to ethtool feature
flags. ethtool_op_get_flags() does the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Return EOPNOTSUPP in ethtool_ops->set_flags.
Fix coding style while at it.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes config dependency on x86 to build vmxnet3 driver. Thus
the driver can be built on big endian architectures now. Although vmxnet3
is not supported on VMs other than x86 architecture, all this code goes in
to ensure correctness. If the code is not dependent on x86, it should not
assume little endian architecture in any of its operations.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3
Guests running on VMware hypervisors supporting vmxnet3 device will thus have
access to improved network functionalities and performance.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang <ronghua@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
