For enabling TSO on devices using AF_PACKET, minimum supported
kernel version is 4.19 due to a virtio GSO fix
9d2f67e43b73 ("net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso")Reported-by: Yi Yang <[email protected]> Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-March/368281.html Signed-off-by: William Tu <[email protected]> --- Documentation/topics/userspace-tso.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/topics/userspace-tso.rst b/Documentation/topics/userspace-tso.rst index 0fbac93a54d7..4c2de50075d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/topics/userspace-tso.rst +++ b/Documentation/topics/userspace-tso.rst @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ in Open vSwitch. Currently, if the NIC supports that, then the feature is enabled, otherwise TSO can still be enabled but SCTP packets sent to the NIC will be dropped. +For enabling TSO on devices using AF_PACKET, minimum supported kernel version +is 4.19. This is due to a virtio GSO fix: +9d2f67e43b73 ("net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso") + There is no software implementation of TSO, so all ports attached to the datapath must support TSO or packets using that feature will be dropped on ports without TSO support. That also means guests using vhost-user -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
