net: Add Software fallback infrastructure for socket dependent offloads

With socket dependent offloads we rely on the netdev to transform
the transmitted packets before sending them to the wire.
When a packet from an offloaded socket is rerouted to a different
device we need to detect it and do the transformation in software.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ilya Lesokhin
2018-04-30 10:16:12 +03:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 08303c1895
commit ebf4e808fa
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@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ config GRO_CELLS
bool
default n
config SOCK_VALIDATE_XMIT
bool
config NET_DEVLINK
tristate "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"
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