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Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 10:04:02 -0400
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Lena Wang (王娜) <Lena.Wang@...iatek.com>, 
 "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 "willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com" <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
 "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, 
 Shiming Cheng (成诗明) <Shiming.Cheng@...iatek.com>, 
 "matthias.bgg@...il.com" <matthias.bgg@...il.com>, 
 "pabeni@...hat.com" <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 "edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: prevent pulling SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST skb

Lena Wang (王娜) wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 10:59 -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> >  	 
> > External email : Please do not click links or open attachments until
> > you have verified the sender or the content.
> >  Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > > The problem now is the ethtool in ubuntu can't support "rx-gro-
> > list"
> > > > and "rx-udp-gro-forwarding" although it is updated to version 6.7
> > from 
> > > > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool. 
> > > > 
> > > > There is another verison in 
> > > > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/ethtool
> > .
> > > >  We download the sourcecode but don't know how to compile for
> > ubuntu as
> > > > no ./configure there.
> > > > 
> > > > Is it the one we should use?  If yes, could you please show me
> > how to
> > > > compile and install this ethtool?
> > > 
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git is the
> > > upstream ethtool repo.
> > > 
> > > Since you are testing a custom built kernel, there are other hacky
> > > ways to configure a feature if you lack a userspace component:
> > > 
> > > - just hardcode on or off and reboot
> > > - use YNL ethtool (but features is not implemented yet?)
> > > - write your own netlink helper
> > > - abuse some existing kernel API to toggle it, like a rarely uses
> > systl
> > 
> > And as shared off-line, virtme-ng (vng) can be a good option for
> > working on tools/testing/selftests too.
> > 
> > Ideally
> > 
> > ```
> > vng -v -b -f tools/testing/selftests/net
> > make headers
> > make -C tools/testing/selftests/net
> > 
> > vng -v -r arch/x86/boot/bzImage --user root
> > # inside the VM
> > make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=net run_tests
> > ```
> > 
> > Though last time I tried I had to use a slightly more roundabout
> > 
> > ```
> > make defconfig; make kvm_guest.config
> > ./scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh -m .config
> > tools/testing/selftests/net/config
> > make olddefconfig
> > make -j $(nproc) bzImage
> > make headers
> > make -C tools/testing/selftests/net
> > 
> > vng -v -r arch/x86/boot/bzImage --user root
> > ```
> > 
> > 
> > 
> https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1506/attachments/1143/2441/virtme-ng.pdf
> 
> Dear Willem,
> In https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng it needs kernel 6.5 to setup.
> Current our enviroument doesn't support and we prepare to install a PC
> with a new ubuntu22.04.
> 
> Do you know any request for ubuntu version to run vng, Which version is
> more fit for?

Let's take these configuration questions offline. I've responded.

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