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. Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane at bigswitch.com> --- drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c index 2b88efd..1df2df6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c @@ -376,8 +376,7 @@ virtio_dev_vring_start(struct virtqueue *vq, int queue_type) vq->vq_ring.avail->ring[i] = i + mid_idx; 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; + vq->virtio_net_hdr_mem; vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].len = vq->hw->vtnet_hdr_size; vq->vq_ring.desc[i + mid_idx].flags = -- 1.9.1