[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/vhost: support TSO disabling

Noa Ezra noae at mellanox.com
Wed Jun 19 08:13:44 CEST 2019


TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled by default on vhost.
Add the ability to disable TSO on vhost.
The user should also disable the feature on the virtual machine's xml.

Signed-off-by: Noa Ezra <noae at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst         |  5 +++++
 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst b/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
index 23f2e87..8cfda4d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ The user can specify below arguments in `--vdev` option.
     It is used to enable postcopy live-migration support in vhost library.
     (Default: 0 (disabled))
 
+#.  ``tso``:
+
+    It is used to disable tso support in vhost library.
+    (Default: 1 (enabled))
+
 Vhost PMD event handling
 ------------------------
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
index b2cda04..a38c235 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #define ETH_VHOST_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY	"dequeue-zero-copy"
 #define ETH_VHOST_IOMMU_SUPPORT		"iommu-support"
 #define ETH_VHOST_POSTCOPY_SUPPORT	"postcopy-support"
+#define ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO "tso"
 #define VHOST_MAX_PKT_BURST 32
 
 static const char *valid_arguments[] = {
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
 	ETH_VHOST_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY,
 	ETH_VHOST_IOMMU_SUPPORT,
 	ETH_VHOST_POSTCOPY_SUPPORT,
+	ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO,
 	NULL
 };
 
@@ -1200,7 +1202,8 @@ struct vhost_xstats_name_off {
 
 static int
 eth_dev_vhost_create(struct rte_vdev_device *dev, char *iface_name,
-	int16_t queues, const unsigned int numa_node, uint64_t flags)
+	int16_t queues, const unsigned int numa_node, uint64_t flags,
+	uint64_t disable_flags)
 {
 	const char *name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
 	struct rte_eth_dev_data *data;
@@ -1272,6 +1275,11 @@ struct vhost_xstats_name_off {
 	if (rte_vhost_driver_register(iface_name, flags))
 		goto error;
 
+	if (disable_flags) {
+		if (rte_vhost_driver_disable_features(iface_name, disable_flags))
+			goto error;
+	}
+
 	if (rte_vhost_driver_callback_register(iface_name, &vhost_ops) < 0) {
 		VHOST_LOG(ERR, "Can't register callbacks\n");
 		goto error;
@@ -1334,10 +1342,12 @@ struct vhost_xstats_name_off {
 	char *iface_name;
 	uint16_t queues;
 	uint64_t flags = 0;
+	uint64_t disable_flags = 0;
 	int client_mode = 0;
 	int dequeue_zero_copy = 0;
 	int iommu_support = 0;
 	int postcopy_support = 0;
+	int tso = 1;
 	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev;
 	const char *name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
 
@@ -1419,11 +1429,24 @@ struct vhost_xstats_name_off {
 			flags |= RTE_VHOST_USER_POSTCOPY_SUPPORT;
 	}
 
+	if (rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO) == 1) {
+		ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist,
+				ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO,
+				&open_int, &tso);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			goto out_free;
+
+		if (tso == 0) {
+			disable_flags |= (1ULL << VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO4);
+			disable_flags |= (1ULL << VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO6);
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (dev->device.numa_node == SOCKET_ID_ANY)
 		dev->device.numa_node = rte_socket_id();
 
 	eth_dev_vhost_create(dev, iface_name, queues, dev->device.numa_node,
-		flags);
+		flags, disable_flags);
 
 out_free:
 	rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
@@ -1470,7 +1493,8 @@ struct vhost_xstats_name_off {
 	"client=<0|1> "
 	"dequeue-zero-copy=<0|1> "
 	"iommu-support=<0|1> "
-	"postcopy-support=<0|1>");
+	"postcopy-support=<0|1> "
+	"tso=<0|1>");
 
 RTE_INIT(vhost_init_log)
 {
-- 
1.8.3.1



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