Message-ID: <54E3581A.70900@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:02:50 -0500
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
To:	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>,
	"Skidmore, Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
CC:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Choi, Sy Jong" <sy.jong.choi@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	Hayato Momma <h-momma@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to
 enable MC promiscuous mode

On 02/15/2015 11:54 PM, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Can you please fix up your patches based on my tree:
>>>>>>>>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/que
>>>>>>>>>>> ue.git
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Yes. I haven't noticed your tree.
>>>>>>>>>> Will resend patches against it.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I encountered an issue with your tree, the commit id is below.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> $ git log | head
>>>>>>>>> commit e6f1649780f8f5a87299bf6af04453f93d1e3d5e
>>>>>>>>> Author: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
>>>>>>>>> Date:   Fri Jan 23 20:43:14 2015 -0800
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     ethernet: fm10k: Actually drop 4 bits
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     The comment explains the intention, but vid has type u16. Before
>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>     inner shift, it is promoted to int, which has plenty of space for all
>>>>>>>>>     vid's bits, so nothing is dropped. Use a simple mask instead.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I use the kernel from your tree in both host and guest.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Assign an IPv6 for VF in guest.
>>>>>>>>> # ip -6 addr add 2001:db8::18:1/64 dev ens0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Send ping packet from other server to the VM.
>>>>>>>>> # ping6  2001:db8::18:1 -I eth0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The following message was shown.
>>>>>>>>> ixgbevf 0000:00:08.0: partial checksum but l4 proto=3a!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I did the same operation in the host, I saw the same error
>>>>>>>>> message in
>>>>>>> host too.
>>>>>>>>> ixgbe 0000:2d:00.0: partial checksum but l4 proto=3a!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Do you have any idea about that?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ah, sorry about that, try this tree again:
>>>>>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/queue.git
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That patch was dropped for favor of a patch that Matthew Vick
>>>>>>>> put together (and recently got pushed upstream).  So my queue no
>>>>>>>> longer has that patch in the queue, since it got dropped.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I still see the same error, the head id is the below
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ git log | head
>>>>>>> commit a072afb0b45904022b76deef3b770ee9a93cb13a
>>>>>>> Author: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
>>>>>>> Date:   Mon Feb 9 00:27:00 2015 -0800
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     igb: Remove outdated fix me comment in the
>>>>>>> function,gb_acquire_swfw_sync_i210
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>> Hiroshi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm having our validation see if they can recreate the same issue
>>>>>> internally.  When they get back to me I'll let you
>>>>> know
>>>>>> what we found.
>>>>>
>>>>> We did bisect, and the below looks the culprit;
>>>>>
>>>>> 32dce968dd987adfb0c00946d78dad9154f64759 is the first bad commit
>>>>> commit 32dce968dd987adfb0c00946d78dad9154f64759
>>>>> Author: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
>>>>> Date:   Sat Jan 31 10:40:18 2015 -0500
>>>>>
>>>>>     ipv6: Allow for partial checksums on non-ufo packets
>>>>>
>>>>>     Currntly, if we are not doing UFO on the packet, all UDP
>>>>>     packets will start with CHECKSUM_NONE and thus perform full
>>>>>     checksum computations in software even if device support
>>>>>     IPv6 checksum offloading.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Let's start start with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL if the device
>>>>>     supports it and we are sending only a single packet at
>>>>>     or below mtu size.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
>>>>>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>>>>>
>>>>> :040000 040000 4437eaf7e944f5a6136ebf668a256fee688fda3d
>>>> fade8da998d35c8da97a15f0556949ad371e5347 M      net
>>>>
>>>> When I reverted the commit, the issue was solved.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Hiroshi
>>>
>>> I believe the issue is that this patch (32dce968dd98 - ipv6: Allow for partial checksums on non-ufo packets) is that
>> it now sets CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on all IPv6 packets including ICMPv6 ones.  Our HW (82599) only supports checksum offload
>> on TCP/UDP (NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM) so we get hung up on the skb's protocol and the fact that it is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL.
>>>
>>> Another thing that confuses me is the feature test in this patch.  It checks (rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_V6_CSUM)
>> but NETIF_F_V6_CSUM is a two bit field?
>>>
>>> #define NETIF_F_V6_CSUM         (NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM)
>>>
>>> So the test would succeed if either bit was high, that doesn't seem right.  I cc'd the author so maybe he could clue
>> us in.
>>
>> This has been addressed by:
>> commit bf250a1fa769f2eb8fc7a4e28b3b523e9cb67eef
>> Author: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
>> Date:   Tue Feb 10 11:37:29 2015 -0500
>>
>>     ipv6: Partial checksum only UDP packets
>>
>>
>> As far the 2 bit issue, GEN_CSUM (HW_SUM) and IPV6_CSUM can not coexist at the same time.
>> See netdev_fix_features().
>>
> 
> thanks for pointing it. I will test with that commit.
> 
> Jeff's tree hasn't included that commit yet, right?
> Which branch has the commit?

This is in DaveM's net and net-next trees.

-vlad

> 
> thanks,
> Hiroshi
> 

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