For simple TX the virtio-net header must be zeroed, but it was using memory that had been initialized with indirect descriptor tables. This resulted in "unsupported gso type" errors from librte_vhost.
We can use the same memory for every descriptor to save cachelines in the vswitch. Fixes: 6dc5de3a (virtio: use indirect ring elements) Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane at bigswitch.com> --- v1-v2: - Use offsetof to get address of tx_hdr drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c index 2b88efd..ef21d8e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ virtio_dev_vring_start(struct virtqueue *vq, int queue_type) vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].next = i; vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].addr = vq->virtio_net_hdr_mem + - i * vq->hw->vtnet_hdr_size; + offsetof(struct virtio_tx_region, tx_hdr); vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].len = vq->hw->vtnet_hdr_size; vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].flags = -- 1.9.1