On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 9:00 AM Hangbin Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > There are also some duplicated codes in these *_snd functions.
> > > > I think we can move them out to one single function.
> > >
> > > Please don't refactor this code. It will complicate future backports
> > > of stable fixes.
> >
> > Hmm I don't know offhand which duplication this refers to specifically
> > so maybe it's not worth addressing specifically but generally not
> > cleaning up code just because of backports seems wrong ...
>
> Yes, packet_snd() and tpacket_snd() share same addr/msg checking logic that
> I think we can clean up.
>
> > > > > stretching the definition of the flags to include VLAN is acceptable
> > > > > (unlike outright tunnels), but even then I would suggest for net-next.
> > > >
> > > > As I asked, I'm not familiar with virtio code. Do you think if I should
> > > > add a new VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_VLAN flag? It's only a L2 flag without any
> > > > L3
> > > > info. If I add something like VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_VLAN_TCPV4/TCPV6/UDP.
> > > > That
> > > > would add more combinations. Which doesn't like a good idea.
> > >
> > > I would prefer a new flag to denote this type, so that we can be
> > > strict and only change the datapath for packets that have this flag
> > > set (and thus express the intent).
> > >
> > > But the VIRTIO_NET_HDR types are defined in the virtio spec. The
> > > maintainers should probably chime in.
> >
> > Yes, it's a UAPI extension, not to be done lightly. In this case IIUC
> > gso_type in the header is only u8 - 8 bits and 5 of these are already
> > used. So I don't think the virtio TC will be all that happy to burn up
> > a bit unless a clear benefit can be demonstrated.
> >
> > I agree with the net-next proposal, I think it's more a feature than a
> > bugfix. In particular I think a Fixes tag can also be dropped in that
> > IIUC GSO for vlan packets didn't work even before that commit - right?
It should work, we initialize vlan_features since ("4fda830263c5
virtio-net: initialize vlan_features").
What we don't support is vlan offload.
>
> Right. virtio_net_hdr GSO with vlan doesn't work before.
It doesn't work since we don't support that feature.
> I will post this to net-next.
If you want to do that, you need a spec patch as well.
Thanks
>
> Thanks
> Hangbin
>
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