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[v2,3/6] net/vhost: enable compliant offloading mode

Message ID 20220608124946.102623-4-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Maxime Coquelin
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Series Vhost checksum offload improvements |

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Maxime Coquelin June 8, 2022, 12:49 p.m. UTC 
  This patch enables the compliant offloading flags mode by
default, which prevents the Rx path to set Tx offload flags,
which is illegal. A new legacy-ol-flags devarg is introduced
to enable the legacy behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst         |  6 ++++++
 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst b/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
index ee802ec4a8..d7c0e2ade8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@  The user can specify below arguments in `--vdev` option.
     It is used to enable external buffer support in vhost library.
     (Default: 0 (disabled))
 
+#.  ``legacy-ol-flags``:
+
+    It is used to restore legacy behavior for offloading that was not
+    compliant with offloading API.
+    (Default: 0 (disabled))
+
 Vhost PMD event handling
 ------------------------
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
index 8dee629fb0..1620e30df8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@  enum {VIRTIO_RXQ, VIRTIO_TXQ, VIRTIO_QNUM};
 #define ETH_VHOST_CLIENT_ARG		"client"
 #define ETH_VHOST_IOMMU_SUPPORT		"iommu-support"
 #define ETH_VHOST_POSTCOPY_SUPPORT	"postcopy-support"
-#define ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO "tso"
-#define ETH_VHOST_LINEAR_BUF  "linear-buffer"
-#define ETH_VHOST_EXT_BUF  "ext-buffer"
+#define ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO	"tso"
+#define ETH_VHOST_LINEAR_BUF		"linear-buffer"
+#define ETH_VHOST_EXT_BUF		"ext-buffer"
+#define ETH_VHOST_LEGACY_OL_FLAGS	"legacy-ol-flags"
 #define VHOST_MAX_PKT_BURST 32
 
 static const char *valid_arguments[] = {
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@  static const char *valid_arguments[] = {
 	ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO,
 	ETH_VHOST_LINEAR_BUF,
 	ETH_VHOST_EXT_BUF,
+	ETH_VHOST_LEGACY_OL_FLAGS,
 	NULL
 };
 
@@ -1470,6 +1472,7 @@  rte_pmd_vhost_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
 	int tso = 0;
 	int linear_buf = 0;
 	int ext_buf = 0;
+	int legacy_ol_flags = 0;
 	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev;
 	const char *name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
 
@@ -1579,6 +1582,17 @@  rte_pmd_vhost_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
 			flags |= RTE_VHOST_USER_EXTBUF_SUPPORT;
 	}
 
+	if (rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, ETH_VHOST_LEGACY_OL_FLAGS) == 1) {
+		ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist,
+				ETH_VHOST_LEGACY_OL_FLAGS,
+				&open_int, &legacy_ol_flags);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			goto out_free;
+	}
+
+	if (legacy_ol_flags == 0)
+		flags |= RTE_VHOST_USER_NET_COMPLIANT_OL_FLAGS;
+
 	if (dev->device.numa_node == SOCKET_ID_ANY)
 		dev->device.numa_node = rte_socket_id();