[net-next PATCH 1/2 v4] ibmvnic: map L2/L3/L4 header descriptors to firmware
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Wed Apr 6 09:51:57 AEST 2016
From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:20:34 -0500
> Allow the VNIC driver to provide descriptors containing
> L2/L3/L4 headers to firmware. This feature is needed
> for greater hardware compatibility and enablement of checksum
> and TCP offloading features.
>
> A new function is included for the hypervisor call,
> H_SEND_SUBCRQ_INDIRECT, allowing a DMA-mapped array of SCRQ
> descriptor elements to be sent to the VNIC server.
>
> These additions will help fully enable checksum offloading as
> well as other features as they are included later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied.
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