[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] virtio fix false offload claims
Yuanhan Liu
yliu at fridaylinux.org
Sat Jul 8 05:12:22 CEST 2017
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 12:52:48PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> While doing code for Hyper-V, noticed that the virtio driver was
> confused about receive versus transmit offloads. The virtio
> checksum offload is L4 (TCP/UDP) only, not IPv4. Also, TSO
> and LRO are not the same.
>
> This may break some program that was assuming it was getting offloads
> that it wasn't.
Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.
And I think they should be backported to stable releases, thus,
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Thanks.
--yliu
>
> Stephen Hemminger (2):
> virtio: don't falsely claim to do IP checksum
> virtio: don't claim to support LRO
>
> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 30 +++++-------------------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.11.0
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