[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 0/2] Follow-ups for GUEoIPv6 patches

Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Wed May 18 21:27:58 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 10:44 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch series is meant to be applied after:
> [PATCH v7 net-next 00/16] ipv6: Enable GUEoIPv6 and more fixes for v6
> tunneling
> 
> The first patch addresses an issue we already resolved in the GREv4 and
> is
> now present in GREv6 with the introduction of FOU/GUE for IPv6 based GRE
> tunnels.
> 
> The second patch goes through and enables IPv6 tunnel offloads for the
> Intel
> NICs that already support the IPv4 based IP-in-IP tunnel offloads.  I
> have
> only done a bit of touch testing but have seen ~20 Gb/s over an i40e
> interface using a v4-in-v6 tunnel, and I have verified IPv6 GRE is still
> passing traffic at around the same rate.  I plan to do further testing
> but
> with these patches present it should enable a wider audience to be able
> to
> test the new features introduced in Tom's patchset with hardware
> offloads.
> 
> ---
> 
> Alexander Duyck (2):
>       ip6_gre: Do not allow segmentation offloads GRE_CSUM is enabled
> with FOU/GUE
>       intel: Add support for IPv6 IP-in-IP offload

Dave, I have this series added to my queue.
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