From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:44:44 -0400
> This patch reverts earlier commit b13ba1b83f52 ("macvlan: forbid L2
> fowarding offload for macvtap"). The reason for reverting this is because
> the original patch no longer fixes what it previously did as the
> underlying structure has changed for macvtap. Specifically macvtap
> originally pulled packets directly off of the lowerdev. However in commit
> 6acf54f1cf0a ("macvtap: Add support of packet capture on macvtap device.")
> that code was changed and instead macvtap would listen directly on the
> macvtap device itself instead of the lower device. As such, the L2
> forwarding offload should now be able to provide a performance advantage of
> skipping the checks on the lower dev while not introducing any sort of
> regression.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Applied.
