Re: [Autotest] [PATCH 18/18] KVM test: Add subtest of testing offload by ethtool

Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2010-09-23T13:47:40Z

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:11 +0530, pradeep wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:25:43 -0300
> Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > The latest case contains TX/RX/SG/TSO/GSO/GRO/LRO test.
> > RTL8139 NIC doesn't support TSO, LRO, it's too old, so
> > drop offload test from rtl8139. LRO, GRO are only
> > supported by latest kernel, virtio nic doesn't support
> > receive offloading function.
> >
> > Initialize the callbacks first and execute all the sub
> > tests one by one, all the result will be check at the
> > end. When execute this test, vhost should be enabled,
> > then most of new features can be used. Vhost doesn't
> > support VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF, so do not check large
> > packets in received offload test.
> >
> > Transfer files by scp between host and guest, match
> > new opened TCP port by netstat. Capture the packages
> > info by tcpdump, it contains package length.
> >
> > TODO: Query supported offload function by 'ethtool'
> >
>
> Hi Lucas/AMos
>
> Thanks for the patches.
>
> Please find below error, when i try to run ethtool test on
> my guest (kernel: 2.6.32-71.el6.i386) which is on host (Kernel
> 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64).
>
>
> 'module' object has no attribute 'get_linux_ifname'..
>
>
>
> 04:23:59 DEBUG| Got shell prompt -- logged in
> 04:23:59 INFO | Logged into guest 'vm1'
> 04:23:59 ERROR| Test failed: AttributeError: 'module' object has no
> attribute 'get_linux_ifname' 04:23:59 DEBUG| Postprocessing VM 'vm1'...
>
> Ethtool is trying to access get_linux_ifname which is not present in
> kvm_test_utils.py. AM i missing any patches?
>

Yes, please verify http://patchwork.test.kernel.org/patch/2540/

Cheers!

Lucas