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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:30:48 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/14 18:04, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>>
>> On 08/01/14 15:10, Jesse Gross wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've tried the latest net-next on a Xenserver install with 1.9.3
>>>> userspace,
>>>> and it seems this patch series broke it (at least after reverting that
>>>> locally it works now). I haven't went too far yet checking what's the
>>>> problem, but it seems the xenbrX device doesn't really receive too much
>>>> of
>>>> the traffic coming through the NIC. Is it expected?
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you mean by doesn't receive too much traffic? What does it get?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry for the vague error description, now I had more time to look into
>> this. I think the problem boils down to this:
>>
>> Jan 13 17:55:07 localhost ovs-vswitchd:
>> 07890|netlink_socket|DBG|nl_sock_recv__ (Success): nl(len:274,
>> type=29(ovs_packet), flags=0, seq=0, pid=0,genl(cmd=1,version=1)
>> Jan 13 17:55:07 localhost ovs-vswitchd: 07891|netlink|DBG|attributes
>> followed by garbage
>> Jan 13 17:55:07 localhost ovs-vswitchd: 07892|dpif|WARN|system@...br0:
>> recv failed (Invalid argument)
>>
>> That's just keep repeating. I'm keep looking.
>
>
> Now I reverted these top 3 commits:
>
> ovs: make functions local
>
> openvswitch: Compute checksum in skb_gso_segment() if needed
> openvswitch: Use skb_zerocopy() for upcall
>
> And it works. I guess the last one causing the problem. Might be an
> important factor, I'm using 32 bit Dom0.

I think you're probably right. Thomas - can you take a look?

We shouldn't be doing any zerocopy in this situation but it looks to
me like we don't do any padding at all, even in situations where we
are copying the data.
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