On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 11:03 AM Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:17:30 +0800 Di Zhu wrote:
> > Negotiating VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS indicates the device
> > allows control over offload support, but the offloads that can be
> > controlled may have nothing to do with GRO (e.g., if neither GUEST_TSO4
> > nor GUEST_TSO6 is supported).
> >
> > In such a setup, reporting NETIF_F_GRO_HW as available for the device
> > is too optimistic and misleading to the user.
> >
> > Improve the situation by masking off NETIF_F_GRO_HW unless the device
> > possesses actual GRO-related offload capabilities. Out of an abundance
> > of caution, this does not change the current behaviour for hardware with
> > just v6 or just v4 GRO: current interfaces do not allow distinguishing
> > between v6/v4 GRO, so we can't expose them to userspace precisely.
>
> Michael, Jason, does this patch look good now?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
>

Yes, I've acked.

Thanks


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