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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: "Ma, WenwuX" <wenwux.ma@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Matz, Olivier" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] net/vhost: perform SW checksum in Tx path
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:14:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8c43169-55b7-b8ad-2f5e-68fc95f1829d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA0PR11MB45261653A34F207B8330292AEBA29@SA0PR11MB4526.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

Hi Wenwu,

On 6/6/22 11:44, Ma, WenwuX wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
>> Sent: 2022年6月2日 17:07
>> To: Ma, WenwuX <wenwux.ma@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org;
>> jasowang@redhat.com; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>;
>> david.marchand@redhat.com; Matz, Olivier <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] net/vhost: perform SW checksum in Tx path
>>
>> Hi Wenwu,
>>
>> Sorry, I missed your review.
>>
>> On 5/7/22 05:20, Ma, WenwuX wrote:
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: 2022年5月5日 18:27
>>>> To: dev@dpdk.org; jasowang@redhat.com; Xia, Chenbo
>>>> <chenbo.xia@intel.com>; david.marchand@redhat.com;
>>>> olivier.matz@6wind.com
>>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
>>>> Subject: [PATCH 6/6] net/vhost: perform SW checksum in Tx path
>>>>
>>>> Virtio specification supports guest checksum offloading for L4, which
>>>> is enabled with VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM feature negotiation.
>> However,
>>>> the Vhost PMD does not advertise Tx checksum offload capabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Advertising these offload capabilities at the ethdev level is not
>>>> enough, because we could still end-up with the application enabling
>>>> these offloads while the guest not negotiating it.
>>>>
>>>> This patch advertizes the Tx checksum offload capabilities, and
>>>> introduces a compatibility layer to cover the case
>>>> VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM has not been negotiated but the
>> application
>>>> does configure the Tx checksum offloads. This function performs the L4 Tx
>> checksum in SW for UDP and TCP.
>>>> Compared to Rx SW checksum, the Tx SW checksum function needs to
>>>> compute the pseudo-header checksum, as we cannot knwo whether it
>> was
>>>> done before.
>>>>
>>>> This patch does not advertize SCTP checksum offloading capability for
>>>> now, but it could be handled later if the need arises.
>>>
>>> In virtio_enqueue_offload(), if RTE_MBUF_F_TX_IP_CKSUM is set, we will
>>> performs the L3 Tx checksum, why do not we advertise IPV4 checksum
>> offloading capability?
>>> Will we advertise it later?
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, we have an IPv4 SW checksum fallback in Vhost library.
>> We could think about adding the capability, but that's not urgent I think. Do
>> you have a use-case where it is needed?
>>
> The GRO/GSO library doesn't re-calculate IPv4 checksums for merged/fragmented packets, it will cause iperf in the vm to fail.

Can you please elaborate?

If we don't expose the IPv4 checksum availability, it would be done by
the application using the Vhost PMD, so the result will be the same from
the VM point of view. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Maxime

>> Regards,
>> Maxime
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-08  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-05 10:27 [PATCH 0/6] Vhost checksum offload improvements Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-05 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] Revert "app/testpmd: modify mac in csum forwarding" Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-16 13:03   ` Xia, Chenbo
2022-05-17 15:24     ` Zhang, Yuying
2022-05-19 16:27   ` David Marchand
2022-05-05 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] vhost: fix missing enqueue pseudo-header calculation Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-16 13:24   ` Xia, Chenbo
2022-05-05 10:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] net/vhost: enable compliant offloading mode Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-16 13:26   ` Xia, Chenbo
2022-05-16 13:28     ` Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-16 13:39       ` Xia, Chenbo
2022-06-07  1:19         ` Ma, WenwuX
2022-06-08  8:19           ` Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-05 10:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] net/vhost: make VLAN stripping flag a boolean Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-16 13:27   ` Xia, Chenbo
2022-05-05 10:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] net/vhost: perform SW checksum in Rx path Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-05 10:27 ` [PATCH 6/6] net/vhost: perform SW checksum in Tx path Maxime Coquelin
2022-05-07  3:20   ` Ma, WenwuX
2022-06-02  9:07     ` Maxime Coquelin
2022-06-06  9:44       ` Ma, WenwuX
2022-06-08  8:14         ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]
2022-06-09  1:03           ` Ma, WenwuX

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