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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/3] virtio-net: Introduce extended RSC feature
No problem, I'll send an update

On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 1:31 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 01:07:31PM +0200, Yuri Benditovich wrote:
> > VIRTIO_NET_F_RSC_EXT feature bit indicates that the device
> > is able to provide extended RSC information. When the feature
> > is negotiatede and 'gso_type' field in received packet is not
> > GSO_NONE, the device reports number of coalesced packets in
> > 'csum_start' field and number of duplicated acks in 'csum_offset'
> > field and sets VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_RSC_INFO in 'flags' field.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@daynix.com>
> > ---
> > include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 12 ++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> > index a3715a3224c1..536152fad3c4 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> > @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
> > * Steering */
> > #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23 /* Set MAC address */
> >
> > +#define VIRTIO_NET_F_RSC_EXT 61 /* extended coalescing info */
> > #define VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY 62 /* Act as standby for another device
> > * with the same MAC.
> > */
> > @@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ struct virtio_net_config {
> > struct virtio_net_hdr_v1 {
> > #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM 1 /* Use csum_start, csum_offset */
> > #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID 2 /* Csum is valid */
> > +#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_RSC_INFO 4 /* rsc info in csum_ fields */
> > __u8 flags;
> > #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE 0 /* Not a GSO frame */
> > #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV4 1 /* GSO frame, IPv4 TCP (TSO) */
> > @@ -113,8 +115,14 @@ struct virtio_net_hdr_v1 {
> > __u8 gso_type;
> > __virtio16 hdr_len; /* Ethernet + IP + tcp/udp hdrs */
> > __virtio16 gso_size; /* Bytes to append to hdr_len per frame */
> > - __virtio16 csum_start; /* Position to start checksumming from */
> > - __virtio16 csum_offset; /* Offset after that to place checksum */
> > + union {
> > + __virtio16 csum_start; /* Position to start checksumming from */
> > + __le16 rsc_ext_num_packets; /* num of coalesced packets */
> > + };
> > + union {
> > + __virtio16 csum_offset; /* Offset after that to place checksum */
> > + __le16 rsc_ext_num_dupacks; /* num of duplicated acks */
>
> dupacks -> dup_acks ?
>
> Also wouldn't it be cleaner to have an rsc struct? And "num" is kind of
> extraneous, right?
> So how about we group the fields:
>
> union {
> /* Unnamed struct for compatiblity. */
> struct {
> csum_start
> csum_offset
> };
> struct {
> virtio16 start;
> virtio16 offset;
> } csum;
> struct {
> le16 packets;
> le16 dup_acks;
> } rsc;
> };
>
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> > + };
> > __virtio16 num_buffers; /* Number of merged rx buffers */
> > };
>
>
>
> > --
> > 2.17.1
>

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