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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c37
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
index 517a15904fb0..6a2004bbe87f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
@@ -1144,6 +1144,7 @@ static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct gmac_txdesc *txd;
skb_frag_t *skb_frag;
dma_addr_t mapping;
+ bool tcp = false;
void *buffer;
u16 mss;
int ret;
@@ -1151,6 +1152,13 @@ static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
word1 = skb->len;
word3 = SOF_BIT;
+ /* Determine if we are doing TCP */
+ if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP))
+ tcp = (ip_hdr(skb)->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP);
+ else
+ /* IPv6 */
+ tcp = (ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr == IPPROTO_TCP);
+
mss = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size;
if (mss) {
/* This means we are dealing with TCP and skb->len is the
@@ -1163,8 +1171,26 @@ static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
mss, skb->len);
word1 |= TSS_MTU_ENABLE_BIT;
word3 |= mss;
+ } else if (tcp) {
+ /* Even if we are not using TSO, use the hardware offloader
+ * for transferring the TCP frame: this hardware has partial
+ * TCP awareness (called TOE - TCP Offload Engine) and will
+ * according to the datasheet put packets belonging to the
+ * same TCP connection in the same queue for the TOE/TSO
+ * engine to process. The engine will deal with chopping
+ * up frames that exceed ETH_DATA_LEN which the
+ * checksumming engine cannot handle (see below) into
+ * manageable chunks. It flawlessly deals with quite big
+ * frames and frames containing custom DSA EtherTypes.
+ */
+ mss = netdev->mtu + skb_tcp_all_headers(skb);
+ mss = min(mss, skb->len);
+ netdev_dbg(netdev, "TOE/TSO len %04x mtu %04x mss %04x\n",
+ skb->len, netdev->mtu, mss);
+ word1 |= TSS_MTU_ENABLE_BIT;
+ word3 |= mss;
} else if (skb->len >= ETH_FRAME_LEN) {
- /* Hardware offloaded checksumming isn't working on frames
+ /* Hardware offloaded checksumming isn't working on non-TCP frames
* bigger than 1514 bytes. A hypothesis about this is that the
* checksum buffer is only 1518 bytes, so when the frames get
* bigger they get truncated, or the last few bytes get
@@ -1181,21 +1207,16 @@ static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
}
if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
- int tcp = 0;
-
/* We do not switch off the checksumming on non TCP/UDP
* frames: as is shown from tests, the checksumming engine
* is smart enough to see that a frame is not actually TCP
* or UDP and then just pass it through without any changes
* to the frame.
*/
- if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
+ if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP))
word1 |= TSS_IP_CHKSUM_BIT;
- tcp = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP;
- } else { /* IPv6 */
+ else
word1 |= TSS_IPV6_ENABLE_BIT;
- tcp = ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr == IPPROTO_TCP;
- }
word1 |= tcp ? TSS_TCP_CHKSUM_BIT : TSS_UDP_CHKSUM_BIT;
}