Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 5 authors, 2018-07-25

Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 3/8] veth: Avoid drops by oversized packets when XDP is enabled

From: Jakub Kicinski <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-24 20:18:14

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:39:09 +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
On 2018/07/24 10:56, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
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On 2018/07/24 9:27, Jakub Kicinski wrote:  
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:13:03 +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:  
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From: Toshiaki Makita <redacted>

All oversized packets including GSO packets are dropped if XDP is
enabled on receiver side, so don't send such packets from peer.

Drop TSO and SCTP fragmentation features so that veth devices themselves
segment packets with XDP enabled. Also cap MTU accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <redacted>  
Is there any precedence for fixing up features and MTU like this?  Most
drivers just refuse to install the program if settings are incompatible.  
I don't know any precedence. I can refuse the program on installing it
when features and MTU are not appropriate. Is it preferred?
Note that with current implementation wanted_features are not touched so
features will be restored when the XDP program is removed. MTU will not
be restored though, as I do not remember the original MTU.  
I just recalled that virtio_net used to refused XDP when guest offload
features are incompatible but now it dynamically fixup them on
installing an XDP program.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3f93522ffab2d46a36b57adf324a54e674fc9536
That's slightly different AFAIU, because the virtio features weren't
really controllable at runtime at all.  I'm not dead set on leaving the
features be, but I just want to make sure we think this through
properly before we commit to any magic behaviour for ever...

Taking a quick glance at the MTU side, it seems that today if someone
decides to set MTU on one side of a veth pair the packets will simply
get dropped.  So the MTU coupling for XDP doesn't seem in line with
existing behaviour of veth, not only other XDP drivers.
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