From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: alloc big buffers also when guest can receive UFO Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:40:59 +0800 Message-ID: <52FC5AEB.3090503@redhat.com> References: <1392183808-16789-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> <20140212115901.GC23006@redhat.com> <52FC35B5.6000900@redhat.com> <20140213051559.GB31352@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140213051559.GB31352@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Sridhar Samudrala List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On 02/13/2014 01:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:02:13AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On 02/12/2014 07:59 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:43:28PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >>>>> We should alloc big buffers also when guest can receive UFO >>>>> pakcets. Otherwise the big packets will be truncated when mergeable rx >>>>> buffer is disabled. >>> Not truncated, they will be dropped. >>> >> Why dropped? We enable the ufo on tap0 if VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_UFO is >> negotiated. So skb was queued on the receive queue. But since the >> receive buffer is small, it will be truncated during tun_put_user(). > Hypervisor shouldn't truncate packets silently - if it does > it's a hypervisor bug. Passing malformed packets to guest is > a bad idea. > Yes, but the commit log describes the current behaviour so it was ok? Btw, dropping the packets silently is still not good. Virito needs a method to report rx errors to guest.