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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com, fbl@sysclose.org, i.maximets@ovn.org,
	Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>,
	Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu@intel.com>,
	"Stokes, Ian" <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:31:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54d907c8-a49a-0ccb-2886-4a27474860c1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a03c3ac-95bf-ff34-3485-71ec03145a05@redhat.com>



On 4/29/21 3:30 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/29/21 10:04 AM, David Marchand wrote:
>> The vhost library current configures Tx offloading (PKT_TX_*) on any
> 
> s/current/currently/
> 
>> packet received from a guest virtio device which asks for some offloading.
>>
>> This is problematic, as Tx offloading is something that the application
>> must ask for: the application needs to configure devices
>> to support every used offloads (ip, tcp checksumming, tso..), and the
>> various l2/l3/l4 lengths must be set following any processing that
>> happened in the application itself.
>>
>> On the other hand, the received packets are not marked wrt current
>> packet l3/l4 checksumming info.
>>
>> Copy virtio rx processing to fix those offload flags but accepting
>> VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN and VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP too.
>>
>> The vhost example has been updated accordingly: TSO is applied to any
>> packet marked LRO.
>>
>> Fixes: 859b480d5afd ("vhost: add guest offload setting")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> Changes since v1:
>> - updated vhost example,
>> - restored VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN and VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP support,
>> - restored log on buggy offload request,
>>
>> ---
>>  examples/vhost/main.c  |  42 +++++++------
>>  lib/vhost/virtio_net.c | 139 +++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> 

As I understand it, this change kind of break the ABI, but it is
actually fixing a misuse of the mbuf API, so I think we should
take this patch.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-29 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01  9:52 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] Offload flags fixes David Marchand
2021-04-01  9:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] mbuf: mark old offload flag as deprecated David Marchand
2021-04-07 20:14   ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-08  7:23   ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-08  8:41     ` David Marchand
2021-04-01  9:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] net/tap: do not touch Tx offload flags David Marchand
2021-04-07 20:15   ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-08  7:41     ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-08 11:21       ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-08 12:05         ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-08 12:58           ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-09 13:30             ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-09 16:55               ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-28 12:17               ` David Marchand
2021-04-08 12:16         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-08  7:53   ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-28 12:12     ` David Marchand
2021-04-01  9:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] net/virtio: " David Marchand
2021-04-13 14:17   ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-04-01  9:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] net/virtio: refactor Tx offload helper David Marchand
2021-04-08 13:05   ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-09  2:31   ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-01  9:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path David Marchand
2021-04-08  8:28   ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-08 18:38   ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-13 15:27     ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-04-27 17:09       ` David Marchand
2021-04-27 17:19         ` David Marchand
2021-04-29  8:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Offload flags fixes David Marchand
2021-04-29  8:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] mbuf: mark old offload flag as deprecated David Marchand
2021-04-29 12:14     ` Lance Richardson
2021-04-29 16:45     ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-04-29  8:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] net/virtio: do not touch Tx offload flags David Marchand
2021-04-29 13:51     ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-29  8:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] net/virtio: refactor Tx offload helper David Marchand
2021-04-29 12:59     ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-04-29  8:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path David Marchand
2021-04-29 13:30     ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-04-29 13:31       ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]
2021-04-29 20:21         ` David Marchand
2021-04-30  8:38           ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-04-29 20:09       ` David Marchand
2021-04-29 18:39     ` Flavio Leitner
2021-04-29 19:18       ` David Marchand
2021-05-03 13:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Offload flags fixes David Marchand
2021-05-03 13:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] mbuf: mark old offload flag as deprecated David Marchand
2021-05-03 14:02     ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-05-03 14:12     ` David Marchand
2021-05-03 13:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] net/virtio: do not touch Tx offload flags David Marchand
2021-05-03 13:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/virtio: refactor Tx offload helper David Marchand
2021-05-03 13:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path David Marchand
2021-05-03 15:24   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Offload flags fixes Maxime Coquelin
2021-05-03 16:21     ` David Marchand
2021-05-03 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] " David Marchand
2021-05-03 16:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] net/virtio: do not touch Tx offload flags David Marchand
2021-05-03 16:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] net/virtio: refactor Tx offload helper David Marchand
2021-05-03 16:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path David Marchand
2021-05-04 11:07     ` Flavio Leitner
2021-05-08  6:24     ` Wang, Yinan
2021-05-12  3:29       ` Wang, Yinan
2021-05-12 15:20         ` David Marchand
2021-05-13  6:34           ` Wang, Yinan
2021-05-04  8:29   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] Offload flags fixes Maxime Coquelin

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