Re: [PATCH net v3 1/8] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 15:28:50 EST
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> The following patch will add ingress resolution of uncommon virtio net
> hdr checksum metadata (software checksum completion at ingress) which
> adds performance overhead to the packet processing.
>
> We should make it visible, so a hypothetical workload relying on
> uncommon metadata can be distinguished from none at all. This way issues
> in the parsing will be reported and not quietly pay the host-CPU
> checksum overhead instead of offload.
>
> Flip every call to virtio_net_hdr_to_skb to test for negative errno
> only, and have tun count these events per device as rx_csum_sw, exposed
> via ethtool -S.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/tap.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/net/tun.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +-
> net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 ++--
> 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tap.c b/drivers/net/tap.c
> index ff67d99deb39..73e883394446 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tap.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tap.c
> @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static ssize_t tap_get_user(struct tap_queue *q, void *msg_control,
>
> if (vnet_hdr_len) {
> err = tun_vnet_hdr_to_skb(q->flags, skb, &vnet_hdr);
> - if (err) {
> + if (err < 0) {
> rcu_read_unlock();
> drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_HDR;
> goto err_kfree;
> @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static int tap_get_user_xdp(struct tap_queue *q, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
>
> if (vnet_hdr_len) {
> err = tun_vnet_hdr_to_skb(q->flags, skb, gso);
> - if (err) {
> + if (err < 0) {
> rcu_read_unlock();
> goto err_kfree;
> }
similar to tun, should tap count this event?
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index 242899f7fd07..19cb443c89b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
> u32 flow_count;
> u32 rx_batched;
> atomic_long_t rx_frame_errors;
> + atomic64_t rx_csum_sw;
is a normal (and cheaper on 32b platforms) atomic_t or atomic_long_t sufficient?
> struct bpf_prog __rcu *xdp_prog;
> struct tun_prog __rcu *steering_prog;
> struct tun_prog __rcu *filter_prog;
> @@ -1935,11 +1936,16 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
> break;
> }
>
> - if (tun_vnet_hdr_tnl_to_skb(tun->flags, features, skb, &hdr)) {
> + err = tun_vnet_hdr_tnl_to_skb(tun->flags, features, skb, &hdr);
> + if (err < 0) {
> atomic_long_inc(&tun->rx_frame_errors);
> err = -EINVAL;
> goto free_skb;
> }
> + if (err > 0) {
} else if (err > 0) {
> + atomic64_inc(&tun->rx_csum_sw);
> + err = 0;
> + }
>
> if ((tun->flags & TUN_TYPE_MASK) == IFF_TAP)
> skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, tun->dev);
> @@ -2605,12 +2611,15 @@ static int tun_xdp_one(struct tun_struct *tun,
> tnl_hdr = (struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash_tunnel *)gso;
> skb->dev = tun->dev;
> skb_set_network_header(skb, ETH_HLEN);
> - if (tun_vnet_hdr_tnl_to_skb(tun->flags, features, skb, tnl_hdr)) {
> + ret = tun_vnet_hdr_tnl_to_skb(tun->flags, features, skb, tnl_hdr);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> atomic_long_inc(&tun->rx_frame_errors);
> kfree_skb(skb);
> ret = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
> + if (ret > 0)
same
> + atomic64_inc(&tun->rx_csum_sw);
maybe reset ret = 0 in all these branches
>
> skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, tun->dev);
> skb_reset_network_header(skb);
> @@ -3739,7 +3748,35 @@ static void tun_get_channels(struct net_device *dev,
> channels->max_combined = tun->flags & IFF_MULTI_QUEUE ? MAX_TAP_QUEUES : 1;
> }
>
> +#define TUN_STATS_LEN 1
> +static const char tun_ethtool_strings[TUN_STATS_LEN][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
> + "rx_csum_sw",
> +};
> +
> +static int tun_get_sset_count(struct net_device *dev, int sset)
> +{
> + return sset == ETH_SS_STATS ? TUN_STATS_LEN : -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +}
> +
> +static void tun_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, u32 stringset, u8 *data)
> +{
> + if (stringset == ETH_SS_STATS)
> + memcpy(data, tun_ethtool_strings,
> + sizeof(tun_ethtool_strings));
> +}
> +
> +static void tun_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
> + struct ethtool_stats *stats, u64 *data)
> +{
> + struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
> +
> + data[0] = atomic64_read(&tun->rx_csum_sw);
> +}
> +
> static const struct ethtool_ops tun_ethtool_ops = {
> + .get_sset_count = tun_get_sset_count,
> + .get_strings = tun_get_strings,
> + .get_ethtool_stats = tun_get_ethtool_stats,
> .supported_coalesce_params = ETHTOOL_COALESCE_RX_MAX_FRAMES,
> .get_drvinfo = tun_get_drvinfo,
> .get_msglevel = tun_get_msglevel,
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index daab43ac92ce..2e6fd81df9c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ static void virtnet_receive_done(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct receive_queue *
> skb_set_network_header(skb, ETH_HLEN);
> if (virtio_net_hdr_tnl_to_skb(skb, &hdr->tnl_hdr, vi->rx_tnl,
> vi->rx_tnl_csum,
> - virtio_is_little_endian(vi->vdev))) {
> + virtio_is_little_endian(vi->vdev)) < 0) {
> net_warn_ratelimited("%s: bad gso: type: %x, size: %u, flags %x tunnel %d tnl csum %d\n",
> dev->name, hdr->hdr.gso_type,
> hdr->hdr.gso_size, hdr->hdr.flags,
should virtio_net count these too? Or do we assume that devices are
more trustworthy, so unlikely to cause this issue?
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index 52ae3d875e97..e6aec9ecfa99 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -2913,7 +2913,7 @@ static int tpacket_snd(struct packet_sock *po, struct msghdr *msg)
> }
>
> if (has_vnet_hdr) {
> - if (virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, &vnet_hdr, vio_le())) {
> + if (virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, &vnet_hdr, vio_le()) < 0) {
> tp_len = -EINVAL;
> goto tpacket_error;
> }
> @@ -3136,7 +3136,7 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
>
> if (vnet_hdr_sz) {
> err = virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, &vnet_hdr, vio_le());
> - if (err)
> + if (err < 0)
> goto out_free;
> len += vnet_hdr_sz;
> }
> --
> MST
>