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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com,
	sugesh.chandran@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
	jianfeng.tan@intel.com, helin.zhang@intel.com,
	adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
	dprovan@bivio.net, xiao.w.wang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/12] virtio: reinitialize the device in configure callback
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:54:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161013075415.GS16751@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57FE5E55.4010809@6wind.com>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:01:25PM +0200, Olivier MATZ wrote:
> Hello Yuanhan,
> 
> On 10/12/2016 04:41 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> >>@@ -1344,6 +1347,7 @@ virtio_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> >>  {
> >>  	const struct rte_eth_rxmode *rxmode = &dev->data->dev_conf.rxmode;
> >>  	struct virtio_hw *hw = dev->data->dev_private;
> >>+	uint64_t req_features;
> >>  	int ret;
> >>
> >>  	PMD_INIT_LOG(DEBUG, "configure");
> >>@@ -1353,6 +1357,14 @@ virtio_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> >>  		return -EINVAL;
> >>  	}
> >>
> >>+	req_features = VIRTIO_PMD_GUEST_FEATURES;
> >>+	/* if request features changed, reinit the device */
> >>+	if (req_features != hw->req_guest_features) {
> >>+		ret = virtio_init_device(dev, req_features);
> >>+		if (ret < 0)
> >>+			return ret;
> >>+	}
> >
> >Why do you have to reset virtio here? This doesn't make too much sense
> >to me.
> >
> >IIUC, you want to make sure those TSO related features being unset at
> >init time, and enable it (by doing reset) when it's asked to be enabled
> >(by rte_eth_dev_configure)?
> >
> >Why not always setting those features? We could do the actual offloads
> >when:
> >
> >- those features have been negoiated
> >
> >- they are enabled through rte_eth_dev_configure
> >
> >With that, I think we could avoid the reset here?
> 
> It would work for TX, since you decide to use or not the feature. But I
> think this won't work for RX: if you negociate LRO at init, the host may
> send you large packets, even if LRO is disabled in dev_configure.

I see. Thanks.

Besides, I think you should return error when LRO is not negoiated
after the reset (say, when it's disabled through qemu command line)?

	--yliu

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-13  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-21  8:08 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] net/virtio: add offload support Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/12] virtio: move device initialization in a function Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/12] virtio: setup and start cq in configure callback Olivier Matz
2016-07-21 21:15   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-07-22  7:54     ` Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/12] virtio: reinitialize the device " Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/12] mbuf: add function to calculate a checksum Olivier Matz
2016-07-21 10:51   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-07-21 16:26     ` Don Provan
2016-07-21 16:46       ` Olivier Matz
2016-07-22  8:24     ` Olivier Matz
2016-08-29 14:52       ` Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/12] mbuf: add new Rx checksum mbuf flags Olivier Matz
2016-07-21 21:22   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-07-22  8:03     ` Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/12] app/testpmd: fix checksum stats in csum engine Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/12] mbuf: new flag for LRO Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/12] app/testpmd: display lro segment size Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/12] virtio: add Rx checksum offload support Olivier Matz
2016-07-27  9:52   ` Wang, Xiao W
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/12] virtio: add Tx " Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/12] virtio: add Lro support Olivier Matz
2016-07-21  8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/12] virtio: add Tso support Olivier Matz
2016-10-03  9:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] net/virtio: add offload support Olivier Matz
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/12] virtio: move device initialization in a function Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 12:30     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/12] virtio: setup and start cq in configure callback Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 12:47     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/12] virtio: reinitialize the device " Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 13:13     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-12 14:41     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-12 16:01       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-13  7:54         ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-10-13 13:57           ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/12] net: add function to calculate a checksum in a mbuf Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 13:25     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-11 13:33       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/12] mbuf: add new Rx checksum mbuf flags Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 13:43     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/12] app/testpmd: fix checksum stats in csum engine Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 13:46     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/12] mbuf: new flag for LRO Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 13:48     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/12] app/testpmd: display lro segment size Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 13:49     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/12] virtio: add Rx checksum offload support Olivier Matz
2016-10-03 12:51     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-05 11:56       ` Olivier Matz
2016-10-05 13:27         ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-05 13:30           ` Olivier Matz
2016-10-12 13:02           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-12 15:55             ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-11 14:04     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-11 14:29       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-11 14:36         ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-11 14:49           ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/12] virtio: add Tx " Olivier Matz
2016-10-07  7:25     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-07 16:36       ` Olivier Matz
2016-10-13  8:38     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 13:58       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/12] virtio: add Lro support Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 14:21     ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-10-03  9:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/12] virtio: add Tso support Olivier Matz
2016-10-13  8:18     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 14:02       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-13 14:16         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 14:52           ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-13 15:01             ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 15:15               ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-13 15:29                 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 15:45                   ` Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 16:01                     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 15:04             ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 23:33       ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-10-18 14:07         ` Olivier Matz
2016-10-11 11:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] net/virtio: add offload support Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-11 12:14     ` Olivier MATZ
2016-10-11 15:37       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/12] net/virtio: move device initialization in a function Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 02/12] net/virtio: setup and start cq in configure callback Olivier Matz
2016-11-02  1:38     ` Yao, Lei A
2016-11-08 14:58       ` Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 03/12] net/virtio: reinitialize the device " Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 04/12] net: add function to calculate a checksum in a mbuf Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 05/12] mbuf: add new Rx checksum mbuf flags Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 06/12] app/testpmd: adapt checksum stats in csum engine Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 07/12] mbuf: new flag for LRO Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 08/12] app/testpmd: display lro segment size Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 09/12] net/virtio: add Rx checksum offload support Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] net/virtio: add Tx " Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 11/12] net/virtio: add Lro support Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 14:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 12/12] net/virtio: add Tso support Olivier Matz
2016-10-13 16:05     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-13 18:50       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-13 19:58         ` Olivier Matz

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