[PATCH v10 0/3] virtio-net: define UDP tunnel offload

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

UDP tunnel usage is ubiquitous in container deployment, and the ability
to offload UDP encapsulated GSO traffic impacts greatly the performances
and the CPU utilization of such use cases.

This series includes:
- a clarification on the current semantic of
NEEDS_CSUM offload (patch 1) to make later changes easier to follow,
- new features definition to handle both UDP tunnel segmentation
offload (patch 2).
- new features definition to handleUDP tunnel outer checksum offload
(patch 2).

A PoC implementation is available here:

https://github.com/pabeni/linux-devel/commits/virtio_tunnel_gso_v10/
https://github.com/pabeni/qemu/tree/virtio_tunnel_gso_v9

Note that the user-space implementation has not been updated since
the previous iteration, since the kernel changes are transparent to it.

Changes from v9:
- added patch 1
- clarified that 'hdr_len' accounts for the inner header for GSO over
UDP tunnel packets
- DATA_VALID is not be allowed for GSO over UDP tunnel packets.
https://lore.kernel.org/virtio-comment/cover.1728029499.git.pabeni@redhat.com/

Changes from v8:
- rebased on top of virtio-1.4, changed udp-tunnel features number
  to avoid conflicts/duplications
- Clarified the usage of DATA_VALID flag with UDP tunneled GSO packets
- mandate strict hdr validation on the rx side, too - for UDP tunneled
  GSO packets only
https://lore.kernel.org/virtio-comment/cover.1725463935.git.pabeni@redhat.com/

Changes from v7:
- minor cleanup in patch 1/2
- dropped confusing wording about csum validation in patch 2/2

Changes from v6:
- replaced inner_protocol_type with
  VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL_IPV{4,6}
- many clarifications and cleanup, see the individual patches changelog
  for the details

Changes from v5:
- split in 2 patches
- dropped outer_mh_offset field
- many csum related clarification

Paolo Abeni (3):
  virtio-net: clarify NEEDS_CSUM semantic for GSO packats.
  virtio-net: define UDP tunnel segmentation offload feature
  virtio-net: define UDP tunnel checksum offload feature

 device-types/net/description.tex | 350 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 340 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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