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Message-ID: <20110516072846.GA6610@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:28:46 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Subject: Re: tap/bridge: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO/NETIF_F_SG
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:26:44PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> 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: Features changed: 0x40004040 -> 0x401b4849
>
> Before this message, userspace called ioctl(TIOCSETOFFLOAD)
> turning offloads on.
>
> > tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> > tap0: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO since no SG feature.
> > tap0: Features changed: 0x401b4849 -> 0x40004040
>
> And then it probably called ioctl(TIOCSETOFFLOAD) again, disabling them.
>
> Best Regards,
> Michał Mirosław
I'd have to look at this some more, but I know qemu-kvm
supports offloads with current kernels.
There seems to be some kernel behaviour change here.
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