Re: [PATCH net] net: prevent pulling SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST skb

[Willem de Bruijn]

Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > The problem now is the ethtool in ubuntu can't support "rx-gro-list"
> > and "rx-udp-gro-forwarding" although it is updated to version 6.7 from 
> > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool. 
> > 
> > There is another verison in 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/ethtool.
> >  We download the sourcecode but don't know how to compile for ubuntu as
> > no ./configure there.
> > 
> > Is it the one we should use?  If yes, could you please show me how to
> > compile and install this ethtool?
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git is the
> upstream ethtool repo.
> 
> Since you are testing a custom built kernel, there are other hacky
> ways to configure a feature if you lack a userspace component:
> 
> - just hardcode on or off and reboot
> - use YNL ethtool (but features is not implemented yet?)
> - write your own netlink helper
> - abuse some existing kernel API to toggle it, like a rarely uses systl

And as shared off-line, virtme-ng (vng) can be a good option for
working on tools/testing/selftests too.

Ideally

```
vng -v -b -f tools/testing/selftests/net
make headers
make -C tools/testing/selftests/net

vng -v -r arch/x86/boot/bzImage --user root
# inside the VM
make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=net run_tests
```

Though last time I tried I had to use a slightly more roundabout

```
make defconfig; make kvm_guest.config
/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh -m .config tools/testing/selftests/net/config
make olddefconfig
make -j $(nproc) bzImage
make headers
make -C tools/testing/selftests/net

vng -v -r arch/x86/boot/bzImage --user root
```


https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1506/attachments/1143/2441/virtme-ng.pdf