Can we add some words about the new fields in the  virtio_net_hdr
structure, such as SHOULD, MUST,...

Also, should the  virtio_net_hdr be bumped to v2?

Rob Miller
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 9:33 AM Yuri Benditovich <[email protected]>
wrote:

> VIRTIO_NET_F_RSC_EXT feature bit indicates that the device
> is able to provide extended RSC information. When the feature
> is negotiatede and 'gso_type' field in received packet is not
> GSO_NONE, the device reports number of coalesced packets in
> 'csum_start' field and number of duplicated acks in 'csum_offset'
> field and sets VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_RSC_INFO in 'flags' field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> index a3715a3224c1..19e76b3e3a64 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
>                                          * Steering */
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23  /* Set MAC address */
>
> +#define VIRTIO_NET_F_RSC_EXT     61    /* extended coalescing info */
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY     62    /* Act as standby for another
> device
>                                          * with the same MAC.
>                                          */
> @@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ struct virtio_net_config {
>  struct virtio_net_hdr_v1 {
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM    1       /* Use csum_start,
> csum_offset */
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID    2       /* Csum is valid */
> +#define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_RSC_INFO      4       /* rsc info in csum_
> fields */
>         __u8 flags;
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_NONE                0       /* Not a GSO frame
> */
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_TCPV4       1       /* GSO frame, IPv4 TCP
> (TSO) */
> @@ -113,8 +115,24 @@ struct virtio_net_hdr_v1 {
>         __u8 gso_type;
>         __virtio16 hdr_len;     /* Ethernet + IP + tcp/udp hdrs */
>         __virtio16 gso_size;    /* Bytes to append to hdr_len per frame */
> -       __virtio16 csum_start;  /* Position to start checksumming from */
> -       __virtio16 csum_offset; /* Offset after that to place checksum */
> +       union {
> +               struct {
> +                       __virtio16 csum_start;
> +                       __virtio16 csum_offset;
> +               };
> +               struct {
> +                       /* Position to start checksumming from */
> +                       __virtio16 start;
> +                       /* Offset after that to place checksum */
> +                       __virtio16 offset;
> +               } csum;
> +               struct {
> +                       /* num of coalesced packets */
> +                       __le16 packets;
> +                       /* num of duplicated acks */
> +                       __le16 dup_acks;
> +               } rsc;
> +       };
>         __virtio16 num_buffers; /* Number of merged rx buffers */
>  };
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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