From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: user space virtio-net exits with "truncating packet" error
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:23:05 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905211523.07278.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A13A127.30305@voltaire.com>
On Wed, 20 May 2009 03:50:23 pm Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Bit 5 = VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC (the host set the mac address)
> > Bit 24 = VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY
> > You don't have any GSO or checksum offload here
>
> Just to make sure I'm in the correct direction - I need to cause these
> offloads to be advertised by the "lower" part of virtio (e.g the qemu
> virtio code) to the "upper" part (the quest kernel), correct? I
> understand that one of them is called front-end and the other back-end,
> but my intuitions don't go up to saying who's what...
Yes, that nomenclature is a bit weird. I prefer "driver" (aka. guest, aka
front-end) and "device" (aka. host, aka back-end).
All virtio_net drivers offer some features (at least CSUM offload), and 2.6.26
and above will offer some serious GSO features.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-21 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-14 10:07 user space virtio-net exits with "truncating packet" error Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 11:22 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-14 12:25 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 11:58 ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-14 14:04 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 18:04 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-15 5:18 ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-19 12:19 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-20 2:47 ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-20 6:20 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-20 6:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-21 5:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-05-15 7:07 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-19 10:00 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-19 10:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-14 15:34 ` Sridhar Samudrala
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