[PATCH v2 -next] virtio-net: Add initial MTU advice feature

From: Aaron Conole
Date: Thu Jun 02 2016 - 17:11:06 EST


This commit adds the feature bit and associated mtu device entry for the
virtio network device. When a virtio device comes up, it checks the
feature bit for the VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU feature. If such feature bit is
enabled, the driver will read the advised MTU and use it as the initial
value.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2:
* Fixed omitted hunk from virtio_net.h
* Squashed to a single commit
* Fixed commit message.

drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +++++++
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index e0638e5..ef5ee01 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1896,6 +1896,12 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ))
vi->has_cvq = true;

+ if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU)) {
+ dev->mtu = virtio_cread16(vdev,
+ offsetof(struct virtio_net_config,
+ mtu));
+ }
+
if (vi->any_header_sg)
dev->needed_headroom = vi->hdr_len;

@@ -2067,6 +2073,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ,
VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR,
VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT,
+ VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU,
};

static struct virtio_driver virtio_net_driver = {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index ec32293..1ab4ea6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ 22 /* Device supports Receive Flow
* Steering */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23 /* Set MAC address */
+#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU 25 /* Initial MTU advice */

#ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO 6 /* Host handles pkts w/ any GSO type */
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ struct virtio_net_config {
* Legal values are between 1 and 0x8000
*/
__u16 max_virtqueue_pairs;
+ /* Default maximum transmit unit advice */
+ __u16 mtu;
} __attribute__((packed));

/*
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