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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] macvtap: unbreak receiving of gro skb with frag list
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:09:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151026080851-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562D9AED.4060607@redhat.com>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:15:57AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/23/2015 09:37 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:57:05AM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> We don't have fraglist support in TAP_FEATURES. This will lead
> >> software segmentation of gro skb with frag list. Fixes by having
> >> frag list support in TAP_FEATURES.
> >>
> >> With this patch single session of netperf receiving were restored from
> >> about 5Gb/s to about 12Gb/s on mlx4.
> >>
> >> Fixes a567dd6252 ("macvtap: simplify usage of tap_features")
> >> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com>
> >> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat•com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>
> > Thanks!
> > Does this mean we should look at re-adding NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
> > to virtio-net as well?
> 
> Not sure I get the point, but probably not. This is for receiving and
> skb_copy_datagram_iter() can deal with frag list.


Point is:
- bridge within guest
- assigned device creating gro skbs with frag list bridged to virtio

> >
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> >> index 248478c..197c939 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> >> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static const struct proto_ops macvtap_socket_ops;
> >>  #define TUN_OFFLOADS (NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO | \
> >>  		      NETIF_F_TSO6 | NETIF_F_UFO)
> >>  #define RX_OFFLOADS (NETIF_F_GRO | NETIF_F_LRO)
> >> -#define TAP_FEATURES (NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_SG)
> >> +#define TAP_FEATURES (NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST)
> >>  
> >>  static struct macvlan_dev *macvtap_get_vlan_rcu(const struct net_device *dev)
> >>  {
> >> -- 
> >> 1.8.3.1
> > --
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-26  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23  4:57 [PATCH net] macvtap: unbreak receiving of gro skb with frag list Jason Wang
2015-10-23  9:35 ` David Miller
2015-10-23 13:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-26  3:15   ` Jason Wang
2015-10-26  6:09     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-10-26  6:53       ` Jason Wang
2015-10-26  8:30         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-27  2:58           ` Jason Wang
2015-10-27  9:05             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-28  2:51               ` Jason Wang

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