[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: vhost: disable unsupported offload features.

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Wed Feb 12 23:44:17 UTC 2020


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 04:31:09PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 04:26:46PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > On 2/10/20 8:18 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> > > Disable ECN and UFO since this is not supported yet. Also, disable
> > > all other features when userspace_tso is not enabled.
> > 
> > Disabling UFO saves us from receiving of a big unfragmented
> > UDP packets, but UDP packets will still have bad checksums
> > and will be dropped by the kernel on receive side.
> > So, this is only part of a fix.
> 
> Yes, this patch is not intended to fix the UDP checksum problem.
> Unless you see a way to do that with changing the flags below.

BTW, why do you think there is a problem with UDP checksum?
We set VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM which should be all it is needed.

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fbl


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