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Message-ID: <20110504223415.GA14819@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 08:34:15 +1000
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: tap/bridge: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO/NETIF_F_SG
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:18:14PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> BTW, I just noticed that net-next spits out
> many of the following when I run any VMs:
>
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Features changed: 0x401b4849 -> 0x40004040
> device msttap0 entered promiscuous mode
> br0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> br0: port 1(msttap0) entering forwarding state
> br0: port 1(msttap0) entering forwarding state
> tap0: Features changed: 0x40004040 -> 0x40024849
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Features changed: 0x40024849 -> 0x40004040
> br0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Features changed: 0x40004040 -> 0x401b4849
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> tap0: Features changed: 0x401b4849 -> 0x40004040
> br0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
>
> My problem is not primarily with warnings:
>
> will that linearize all packets and disable GSO
> for tap and bridge? If yes it can't be good
> for performance...
I think so. So the question is why is checksum off?
Cheers,
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