Messages in this thread | | | From | Jason Wang <> | Date | Fri, 14 May 2021 15:16:23 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] tun: indicate support for USO feature |
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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 4:35 AM Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But surprisingly when TUN receives TUN_F_UFO it does not propagate it > > > anywhere, there is no corresponding NETIF flag. > > > > (It looks like I drop the community and other ccs accidentally, adding > > them back and sorry) > > > > Actually, there is one, NETIF_F_GSO_UDP. > > > > Kernel used to have NETIF_F_UFO, but it was removed due to bugs and > > the lack of real hardware support. Then we found it breaks uABI, so > > Willem tries to make it appear for userspace again, and then it was > > renamed to NETIF_F_GSO_UDP. > > > > But I think it's a bug that we don't proporate TUN_F_UFO to NETIF > > flag, this is a must for the driver that doesn't support > > VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_UFO. I just try to disable all offloads and > > mrg_rxbuf, then netperf UDP_STREAM from host to guest gives me bad > > length packet in the guest. > > > > Willem, I think we probably need to fix this. > > We had to add back support for the kernel to accept UFO packets from > userspace over tuntap. > > The kernel does not generate such packets, so a guest should never be > concerned of receiving UFO packets.
That's my feeling as well.
But when I:
1) turn off all guest gso feature and mrg rx buffers, in this case virtio-net will only allocate 1500 bytes for each packet 2) doing netperf (UDP_STREAM) from local host to guest, I see packet were truncated in the guest
> > Perhaps i'm misunderstanding the problem here. >
I will re-check and get back to you. (probably need a while since I will not be online for the next week).
Thanks
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