Re: [PATCH 2/4] virtio-net: add support of UDP segmentation (USO) on the host

[Yuri Benditovich]

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:48 PM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:43 AM Yuri Benditovich
> <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Large UDP packet provided by the guest with GSO type set to
> > VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP_L4 will be divided to several UDP
> > packets according to the gso_size field.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/virtio_net.h | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> > index b465f8f3e554..4ecf9a1ca912 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_net.h
> > @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ static inline int virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
> >                         ip_proto = IPPROTO_UDP;
> >                         thlen = sizeof(struct udphdr);
> >                         break;
> > +               case VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP_L4:
> > +                       gso_type = SKB_GSO_UDP_L4;
> > +                       ip_proto = IPPROTO_UDP;
> > +                       thlen = sizeof(struct udphdr);
> > +                       break;
>
> If adding a new VIRTIO_NET_HDR type I suggest adding separate IPv4 and
> IPv6 variants, analogous to VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV[46]. To avoid
> having to infer protocol again, as for UDP fragmentation offload (the
> retry case below this code).

Thank you for denoting this important point of distinguishing between v4 and v6.
Let's try to take a deeper look to see what is the correct thing to do
and please correct me if I'm wrong:
1. For USO we do not need to guess the protocol as it is used with
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM (unlike UFO) and the USO packets
transmitted by the guest are under the same clause as both
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCP, i.e. under if (hdr->flags &
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) {
2. If we even define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDPv4_L4 and
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDPv6_L4 - both will be translated to
SKB_GSO_UDP_L4, so this information is immediately lost (the code will
look like:
case VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP4_L4: case VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP6_L4
    gso_type = SKB_GSO_UDP;

3. When we will define the respective guest features (like
VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_USO4 VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_USO6) we will need to
recreate the virtio_net header from the skb when both v4 and v6 have
the same SKB_GSO_UDP_L4, (see virtio_net_hdr_from_skb) and I'm not
sure whether somebody needs the exact v4 or v6 information on guest RX
path.
4. What is completely correct is that when we will start working with
the guest RX path we will need to define something like NETIF_F_USO4
and NETIF_F_USO6 and configure them according to exact guest offload
capabilities.
Do you agree?