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Hi,

I have a question about using vhost-net with an IFF_TUN device. I'm
uncertain about the behaviour I'm seeing which is:

i) on RX, the descriptor contains no Ethernet header, which is what I
was expecting
ii) on TX, the first 14 bytes of the transmitted _IP_ packet are lost;
if I prepend an extra 14 bytes (zeroes) before the IP packet and extend
the packet length accordingly, then things appear to work as expected.

In vhost_net_build_xdp() it appears that the userspace packet data is
copied verbatim to an XDP packet structure that assumes the presence of
an ethernet header; as such, the IP header is copied into the ethernet
header area. I think this accounts for losing the first 14 bytes of the
IP header...

If I set SO_SNDBUF to something less than INT_MAX, then the XDP path is
bypassed and transmission of IP packets works. This means that knowing
the value of SO_SNDBUF becomes important in the userspace application in
order to know whether an extra 14 bytes needs to be prepended to the IP
packet... which is awkward, at best.

For an IFF_TUN device, should vhost-net not be adding an implicit
ethernet header in _build_xdp()? Can this be done without backward
compatibility implications?

Thanks,
Jonas

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