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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger•kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org, jasowang@redhat•com,
	nhorman@tuxdriver•com, Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] tun: Add support for SCTP checksum offload
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:12:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180416201004-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180402134006.10111-5-vyasevic@redhat.com>

On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:40:05AM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> Adds a new tun offload flag to allow for SCTP checksum offload.
> The flag has to be set by the user and defaults to "no offload".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com>

When would user set this flag? Wouldn't that be when
userspace is ready to get SCTP packets without a checksum?
Seems to be this is an indication that when userspace
is qemu running a guest, said guest needs to communicate
the new ability to qemu.

> ---
>  drivers/net/tun.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index a1ba262..263bcbe 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -2719,6 +2719,11 @@ static int set_offload(struct tun_struct *tun, unsigned long arg)
>  		arg &= ~TUN_F_UFO;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (arg & TUN_F_SCTP_CSUM) {
> +		features |= NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC;
> +		arg &= ~TUN_F_SCTP_CSUM;
> +	}
> +
>  	/* This gives the user a way to test for new features in future by
>  	 * trying to set them. */
>  	if (arg)
> -- 
> 2.9.5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-16 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-02 13:40 [PATCH net-next 0/5] virtio-net: Add SCTP checksum offload support Vladislav Yasevich
2018-04-02 13:40 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] virtio: Add support for SCTP checksum offloading Vladislav Yasevich
2018-04-10  3:17   ` Jason Wang
2018-04-11 22:39   ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-11 22:49   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-16 13:45     ` Vlad Yasevich
2018-04-16 15:52       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-16 17:09       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-17 19:06         ` Vlad Yasevich
2018-04-16 17:07   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-02 13:40 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] sctp: Handle sctp packets with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL Vladislav Yasevich
2018-04-02 13:40 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] sctp: Build sctp offload support into the base kernel Vladislav Yasevich
2018-04-02 13:40 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] tun: Add support for SCTP checksum offload Vladislav Yasevich
2018-04-03  0:49   ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-16 17:12   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-04-02 13:40 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] macvlan/macvtap: " Vladislav Yasevich
2018-04-04 15:31   ` Davide Caratti
2018-04-16 17:14   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-02 14:16 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] virtio-net: Add SCTP checksum offload support David Miller
2018-04-02 14:47 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-17 20:35   ` Vlad Yasevich
2018-04-18  1:33     ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-18  6:57       ` Xin Long
2018-04-18 14:06     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 17:22       ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-20 18:32         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-23 13:17         ` Vlad Yasevich

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