Re: [PATCH] net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 2018/10/28 上午7:42, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
>
> On 10/8/2018 11:14 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2018年09月29日 23:41, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
>>> When we use raw socket as the vhost backend, a packet from virito with
>>> gso offloading information, cannot be sent out in later validaton at
>>> xmit path, as we did not set correct skb->protocol which is further 
>>> used
>>> for looking up the gso function.
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> May I ask the reason for using raw socket for vhost? It was not a 
>> common setup with little care in the past few years. And it was slow 
>> since it lacks some recent improvements. Can it be replaced with e.g 
>> macvtap?
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Apologize for late response. We are in container environment, in which 
> case veth is used mostly. Either tap or macvtap cannot be put into an 
> isolated netns. 


I think it can? See 17af2bce88d31e65ed73d638bb752d2e13c66ced.


> Another thing could be macvlan as the backend of vhost, which is not 
> supported either. So unfortunately, improving raw socket is the only 
> choice I suppose.


Btw, you can setup macvtap on top of veth. Does this help?

Thanks


>
> Thanks,
> Jianfeng