OK my bad, missed the update to the working copy of the spec.

Rob Miller
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On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 8:04 AM Yuri Benditovich <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 2:17 PM Rob Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I think it would be good to have a means to negotiate which types of RSS
> that a device is willing to do. Perhaps a CTRLQ command to get RSS
> capabilities then only set those. For example, if a device wishes not to
> RSS on UDPx but will RSS on TCPx, and a HASH request on TCP|USP, this would
> result in a failure.
> >
> > Also, what is the definitions of the xxx_EX options?
> >
>
> The device indicates its capabilities in its configuration space.
> The exact details are in the latest master branch of the virtio-spec
> (the discussion was in virtio-comment list).
> These commits are to align Linux kernel header to what the spec defines.
>
> > Rob Miller
> > [email protected]
> > (919)721-3339
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 9:33 AM Yuri Benditovich <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> RSS (Receive-side scaling) defines hash calculation
> >> rules and decision on receive virtqueue according to
> >> the calculated hash, provided mask to apply and
> >> provided indirection table containing indices of
> >> receive virqueues. The driver sends the control
> >> command to enable multiqueue and provide parameters
> >> for receive steering.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> >> index 19e76b3e3a64..188ad3eecdc8 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_RSS         60    /* Supports RSS RX steering */
> >>  #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.
> >> @@ -70,6 +71,17 @@
> >>  #define VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP   1       /* Link is up */
> >>  #define VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE  2       /* Announcement is needed */
> >>
> >> +/* supported/enabled hash types */
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_IPv4          (1 << 0)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_TCPv4         (1 << 1)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_UDPv4         (1 << 2)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_IPv6          (1 << 3)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_TCPv6         (1 << 4)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_UDPv6         (1 << 5)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_IP_EX         (1 << 6)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_TCP_EX        (1 << 7)
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_UDP_EX        (1 << 8)
> >> +
> >>  struct virtio_net_config {
> >>         /* The config defining mac address (if VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC) */
> >>         __u8 mac[ETH_ALEN];
> >> @@ -93,6 +105,12 @@ struct virtio_net_config {
> >>          * Any other value stands for unknown.
> >>          */
> >>         __u8 duplex;
> >> +       /* maximum size of RSS key */
> >> +       __u8 rss_max_key_size;
> >> +       /* maximum number of indirection table entries */
> >> +       __le16 rss_max_indirection_table_length;
> >> +       /* bitmask of supported VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_ types */
> >> +       __le32 supported_hash_types;
> >>  } __attribute__((packed));
> >>
> >>  /*
> >> @@ -246,7 +264,9 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
> >>
> >>  /*
> >>   * Control Receive Flow Steering
> >> - *
> >> + */
> >> +#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ   4
> >> +/*
> >>   * The command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET
> >>   * enables Receive Flow Steering, specifying the number of the
> transmit and
> >>   * receive queues that will be used. After the command is consumed and
> acked by
> >> @@ -259,11 +279,29 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq {
> >>         __virtio16 virtqueue_pairs;
> >>  };
> >>
> >> -#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ   4
> >>   #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET        0
> >>   #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_MIN        1
> >>   #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_MAX        0x8000
> >>
> >> +/*
> >> + * The command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_RSS_CONFIG has the same effect as
> >> + * VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_SET does and additionally configures
> >> + * the receive steering to use a hash calculated for incoming packet
> >> + * to decide on receive virtqueue to place the packet. The command
> >> + * also provides parameters to calculate a hash and receive virtqueue.
> >> + */
> >> +struct virtio_net_rss_config {
> >> +       __le32 hash_types;
> >> +       __le16 indirection_table_mask;
> >> +       __le16 unclassified_queue;
> >> +       __le16 indirection_table[1/* + indirection_table_mask */];
> >> +       __le16 max_tx_vq;
> >> +       __u8 hash_key_length;
> >> +       __u8 hash_key_data[/* hash_key_length */];
> >> +};
> >> +
> >> + #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_RSS_CONFIG          1
> >> +
> >>  /*
> >>   * Control network offloads
> >>   *
> >> --
> >> 2.17.1
> >>
> >>
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