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* [PATCH net-next 0/8] virtio: introduce GSO over UDP tunnel
@ 2025-05-21 10:32 Paolo Abeni
  2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] virtio: introduce virtio_features_t Paolo Abeni
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From: Paolo Abeni @ 2025-05-21 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: Willem de Bruijn, Jason Wang, Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller,
	Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Michael S. Tsirkin, Xuan Zhuo,
	Eugenio Pérez

Some virtualized deployments use UDP tunnel pervasively and are impacted
negatively by the lack of GSO support for such kind of traffic in the
virtual NIC driver.

The virtio_net specification recently introduced support for GSO over
UDP tunnel, this series updates the virtio implementation to support
such a feature.

Currently the kernel virtio support limits the feature space to 64,
while the virtio specification allows for a larger number of features.
Specifically the GSO-over-UDP-tunnel-related virtio features use bits
65-69.

The first four patches in this series rework the virtio and vhost
feature support to cope with up to 128 bits. The limit is arch-dependent:
only arches with native 128 integer support allow for the wider feature
space.

This implementation choice is aimed at keeping the code churn as
limited as possible. For the same reason, only the virtio_net driver is
reworked to leverage the extended feature space; all other
virtio/vhost drivers are unaffected, but could be upgraded to support
the extended features space in a later time.

The last four patches bring in the actual GSO over UDP tunnel support.
As per specification, some additional fields are introduced into the
virtio net header to support the new offload. The presence of such
fields depends on the negotiated features.

A new pair of helpers is introduced to convert the UDP-tunneled skb
metadata to an extended virtio net header and vice versa. Such helpers
are used by the tun and virtio_net driver to cope with the newly
supported offloads.

Tested with basic stream transfer with all the possible permutations of
host kernel/qemu/guest kernel with/without GSO over UDP tunnel support.
Sharing somewhat early to collect feedback, especially on the userland
code.

Paolo Abeni (8):
  virtio: introduce virtio_features_t
  virtio_pci_modern: allow setting configuring extended features
  vhost-net: allow configuring extended features
  virtio_net: add supports for extended offloads
  net: implement virtio helpers to handle UDP GSO tunneling.
  virtio_net: enable gso over UDP tunnel support.
  tun: enable gso over UDP tunnel support.
  vhost/net: enable gso over UDP tunnel support.

 drivers/net/tun.c                      |  77 +++++++++--
 drivers/net/tun_vnet.h                 |  74 +++++++++--
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c               |  99 ++++++++++++--
 drivers/vhost/net.c                    |  32 ++++-
 drivers/vhost/vhost.h                  |   2 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio.c                |  12 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c           |   4 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c     |   2 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c     |   7 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c |  44 +++---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c           |   2 +-
 include/linux/virtio.h                 |   5 +-
 include/linux/virtio_config.h          |  22 +--
 include/linux/virtio_features.h        |  23 ++++
 include/linux/virtio_net.h             | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/virtio_pci_modern.h      |  11 +-
 include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h            |   9 ++
 include/uapi/linux/vhost.h             |   8 ++
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h        |  33 +++++
 19 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_features.h

-- 
2.49.0


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2025-05-21 10:32 [PATCH net-next 0/8] virtio: introduce GSO over UDP tunnel Paolo Abeni
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] virtio: introduce virtio_features_t Paolo Abeni
2025-05-21 16:02   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-05-22  7:29     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-22 15:26       ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-23 19:50         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-05-22  8:17   ` kernel test robot
2025-05-26  0:43   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-26  7:20     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-27  3:51       ` Jason Wang
2025-05-28 15:47         ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-28 15:52           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-05-29  2:15             ` Jason Wang
2025-05-27 14:14       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] virtio_pci_modern: allow setting configuring extended features Paolo Abeni
2025-05-26  0:49   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-26 10:53     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-27  3:04       ` Jason Wang
2025-05-28 16:02         ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-29  2:22           ` Jason Wang
2025-05-29 11:07             ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-29 14:28               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-06-03  2:11               ` Jason Wang
2025-05-29 14:28           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] vhost-net: allow " Paolo Abeni
2025-05-26  0:47   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-26 10:57     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-27  3:56       ` Jason Wang
2025-05-29 11:10         ` Paolo Abeni
2025-06-03  2:11           ` Jason Wang
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] virtio_net: add supports for extended offloads Paolo Abeni
2025-05-26  1:01   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: implement virtio helpers to handle UDP GSO tunneling Paolo Abeni
2025-05-22 22:29   ` Willem de Bruijn
2025-05-23  6:09     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-23  6:44       ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-23 13:42       ` Willem de Bruijn
2025-05-23 14:00         ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-26  4:40   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-29 11:55     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-30  8:43       ` Paolo Abeni
2025-06-03  2:11       ` Jason Wang
2025-05-29 15:30     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-06-03  2:11       ` Jason Wang
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] virtio_net: enable gso over UDP tunnel support Paolo Abeni
2025-05-22  8:38   ` kernel test robot
2025-05-22 22:33   ` Willem de Bruijn
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] tun: " Paolo Abeni
2025-05-26  4:40   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-26 11:20     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-05-27  4:19       ` Jason Wang
2025-05-29 16:17         ` Paolo Abeni
2025-06-03  2:11           ` Jason Wang
2025-05-21 10:32 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] vhost/net: " Paolo Abeni
2025-05-22  6:43   ` kernel test robot
2025-05-23 19:54     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2025-05-26  4:40   ` Jason Wang
2025-05-21 11:38 ` [PATCH net-next 0/8] virtio: introduce GSO over UDP tunnel Paolo Abeni
2025-05-21 15:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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