On 10/11/2016 04:36 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
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> On 10/11/2016 04:29 PM, Olivier MATZ wrote:
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>> On 10/11/2016 04:04 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>>> +/* Optionally fill offload information in structure */
>>>> +static int
>>>> +virtio_rx_offload(struct rte_mbuf *m, struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr)
>>>> +{
>>>> + struct rte_net_hdr_lens hdr_lens;
>>>> + uint32_t hdrlen, ptype;
>>>> + int l4_supported = 0;
>>>> +
>>>> + /* nothing to do */
>>>> + if (hdr->flags == 0 && hdr->gso_type == VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE)
>>>> + return 0;
>>>> +
>>>> + m->ol_flags |= PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM_UNKNOWN;
>>>> +
>>>> + ptype = rte_net_get_ptype(m, &hdr_lens, RTE_PTYPE_ALL_MASK);
>>>> + m->packet_type = ptype;
>>>> + if ((ptype & RTE_PTYPE_L4_MASK) == RTE_PTYPE_L4_TCP ||
>>>> + (ptype & RTE_PTYPE_L4_MASK) == RTE_PTYPE_L4_UDP ||
>>>> + (ptype & RTE_PTYPE_L4_MASK) == RTE_PTYPE_L4_SCTP)
>>>> + l4_supported = 1;
>>>> +
>>>> + if (hdr->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) {
>>>> + hdrlen = hdr_lens.l2_len + hdr_lens.l3_len + hdr_lens.l4_len;
>>>> + if (hdr->csum_start <= hdrlen && l4_supported) {
>>>> + m->ol_flags |= PKT_RX_L4_CKSUM_NONE;
>>>> + } else {
>>>> + /* Unknown proto or tunnel, do sw cksum. We can assume
>>>> + * the cksum field is in the first segment since the
>>>> + * buffers we provided to the host are large enough.
>>>> + * In case of SCTP, this will be wrong since it's a CRC
>>>> + * but there's nothing we can do.
>>>> + */
>>>> + uint16_t csum, off;
>>>> +
>>>> + csum = rte_raw_cksum_mbuf(m, hdr->csum_start,
>>>> + rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m) - hdr->csum_start);
>>>> + if (csum != 0xffff)
>>> Why don't we do the 1-complement if 0xffff?
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>> This was modified after a comment from Xiao.
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>> In checksum arithmetic (ones' complement), there are 2 equivalent ways
>> to say the checksum is 0: 0xffff (0-), and 0x0000 (0+).
>> Some protocols like UDP use this to differentiate between 0xffff (packet
>> checksum is 0) and 0x0000 (packet checksum is not calculated).
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>> Here, we want to avoid to set a checksum to 0, in case it would mean no
>> checksum for UDP packets. Instead, it is set to 0xffff, which is also a
>> valid checksum for this packet.
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> Ha ok, I wasn't aware of this.
> Thanks for the explanation!
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> Maybe not a big deal, but we could add likely around the test?
Yep, good idea.
Thanks!
Olivier
