On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:06:38 +0800, Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:11:37 +0800, Jason Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 3:38 AM Rob Bradford via B4 Relay
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > kvmtool does not support the VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS feature
> > > but does advertise the VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO{4,6} features. Check that
> > > the VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS feature is present before setting
> > > the NETIF_F_GRO_HW feature bit as otherwise
>
> Here are settings for dev->features and dev->hw_features.

What I want to say is that in normal circumstances, ethtool will identify it and
will not directly modify the backend, if there is no 
VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS.

Thanks.

>
>
> > > an attempt will be made to
> > > program the virtio-net device using the ctrl queue which will fail.
> > >
> > > This resolves the following error when running on kvmtool:
>
> Can you talk about it in detail what it did?
>
> Thanks.
>
> > >
> > > [    1.865992] net eth0: Fail to set guest offload.
> > > [    1.872491] virtio_net virtio2 eth0: set_features() failed (-22); 
> > > wanted 0x0000000000134829, left 0x0080000000134829
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in v2:
> > > - Use parentheses to group logical OR of features
> > > - Link to v1:
> > >   
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +++----
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > index 61e33e4dd0cd..f8341d1a4ccd 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > @@ -3780,10 +3780,9 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device 
> > > *vdev)
> > >         }
> > >         if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM))
> > >                 dev->features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
> > > -       if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4) ||
> > > -           virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6))
> > > -               dev->features |= NETIF_F_GRO_HW;
> > > -       if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS))
> > > +       if ((virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4) ||
> > > +           virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6)) &&
> > > +           virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS))
> > >                 dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GRO_HW;
> >
> > Does this mean we won't have NETIF_F_GRO_HW when only TSO4/TSO6 are
> > supported but not GUEST_OFFLOADS?
> >
> > Is this intended?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > >
> > >         dev->vlan_features = dev->features;
> > >
> > > ---
> > > base-commit: c39cea6f38eefe356d64d0bc1e1f2267e282cdd3
> > > change-id: 20230223-virtio-net-kvmtool-87f37515be22
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > --
> > > Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
> > >
> >
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