From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Autotest] [PATCH 18/18] KVM test: Add subtest of testing
 offload	by ethtool
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:47:30 -0300
Message-ID: <1285249650.2619.45.camel@freedom>
References: <1284503143-5993-1-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com>
	 <1284503143-5993-19-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com>
	 <20100923191127.767e7e3c@skywalker>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: autotest@test.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
To: pradeep <psuriset@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Return-path: <kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60997 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com"
	rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id S1751177Ab0IWNrk (ORCPT <rfc822;kvm@vger.kernel.org>);
	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:47:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20100923191127.767e7e3c@skywalker>
Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <kvm.vger.kernel.org>

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