On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 06:38:43AM +0000, Alvaro Karsz wrote: > > Actually, I think that all you need to do is disable NETIF_F_SG, > > and things will work, no? > > I think that this is not so simple, if I understand correctly, by disabling > NETIF_F_SG we will never receive a chained skbs to transmit, but we still > have more functionality to address, for example: > * The TX timeouts.
I don't get it. With a linear skb we can transmit it as long as there's space for 2 entries in the vq: header and data. What's the source of the timeouts? > * Guest GSO/big MTU (without VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF?), we can't chain page > size buffers anymore. I think we can. mergeable_min_buf_len will just be large. > > Alvaro, can you try? > > It won't matter at the moment, we'll get TX timeout after the first tx > packet, we need to address this part as well. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
