userspace: Enable TSO support for non-DPDK.

This patch enables TSO support for non-DPDK use cases, and
also add check-system-tso testsuite. Before TSO, we have to
disable checksum offload, allowing the kernel to calculate the
TCP/UDP packet checsum. With TSO, we can skip the checksum
validation by enabling checksum offload, and with large packet
size, we see better performance.

Consider container to container use cases:
  iperf3 -c (ns0) -> veth peer -> OVS -> veth peer -> iperf3 -s (ns1)
And I got around 6Gbps, similar to TSO with DPDK-enabled.

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/system-tso-testsuite.at b/tests/system-tso-testsuite.at
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99d748006
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+++ b/tests/system-tso-testsuite.at
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+AT_INIT
+
+AT_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (c) 2020 VMware, Inc.
+
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+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at:
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+
+m4_ifdef([AT_COLOR_TESTS], [AT_COLOR_TESTS])
+
+m4_include([tests/ovs-macros.at])
+m4_include([tests/ovsdb-macros.at])
+m4_include([tests/ofproto-macros.at])
+m4_include([tests/system-common-macros.at])
+m4_include([tests/system-userspace-macros.at])
+m4_include([tests/system-tso-macros.at])
+
+m4_include([tests/system-traffic.at])