RE: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode

[Hiroshi Shimamoto]

> Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hiroshi Shimamoto [mailto:h-shimamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 6:29 PM
> > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> > Cc: Alexander Duyck; Skidmore, Donald C; BjÃrn Mork; e1000-
> > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Choi, Sy Jong; linux-
> > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; David Laight; Hayato Momma
> > Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to
> > enable MC promiscuous mode
> >
> > > > > > Can you please fix up your patches based on my tree:
> > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/queue.git
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes. I haven't noticed your tree.
> > > > > Will resend patches against it.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I encountered an issue with your tree, the commit id is below.
> > > >
> > > > $ git log | head
> > > > commit e6f1649780f8f5a87299bf6af04453f93d1e3d5e
> > > > Author: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date:   Fri Jan 23 20:43:14 2015 -0800
> > > >
> > > >     ethernet: fm10k: Actually drop 4 bits
> > > >
> > > >     The comment explains the intention, but vid has type u16. Before the
> > > >     inner shift, it is promoted to int, which has plenty of space for all
> > > >     vid's bits, so nothing is dropped. Use a simple mask instead.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I use the kernel from your tree in both host and guest.
> > > >
> > > > Assign an IPv6 for VF in guest.
> > > > # ip -6 addr add 2001:db8::18:1/64 dev ens0
> > > >
> > > > Send ping packet from other server to the VM.
> > > > # ping6  2001:db8::18:1 -I eth0
> > > >
> > > > The following message was shown.
> > > > ixgbevf 0000:00:08.0: partial checksum but l4 proto=3a!
> > > >
> > > > If I did the same operation in the host, I saw the same error message in
> > host too.
> > > > ixgbe 0000:2d:00.0: partial checksum but l4 proto=3a!
> > > >
> > > > Do you have any idea about that?
> > >
> > > Ah, sorry about that, try this tree again:
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/queue.git
> > >
> > > That patch was dropped for favor of a patch that Matthew Vick put
> > > together (and recently got pushed upstream).  So my queue no longer
> > > has that patch in the queue, since it got dropped.
> >
> > I still see the same error, the head id is the below
> >
> > $ git log | head
> > commit a072afb0b45904022b76deef3b770ee9a93cb13a
> > Author: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Mon Feb 9 00:27:00 2015 -0800
> >
> >     igb: Remove outdated fix me comment in the
> > function,gb_acquire_swfw_sync_i210
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > Hiroshi
> 
> I'm having our validation see if they can recreate the same issue internally.  When they get back to me I'll let you know
> what we found.

We did bisect, and the below looks the culprit;

32dce968dd987adfb0c00946d78dad9154f64759 is the first bad commit
commit 32dce968dd987adfb0c00946d78dad9154f64759
Author: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Jan 31 10:40:18 2015 -0500

    ipv6: Allow for partial checksums on non-ufo packets

    Currntly, if we are not doing UFO on the packet, all UDP
    packets will start with CHECKSUM_NONE and thus perform full
    checksum computations in software even if device support
    IPv6 checksum offloading.

    Let's start start with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL if the device
    supports it and we are sending only a single packet at
    or below mtu size.

    Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

:040000 040000 4437eaf7e944f5a6136ebf668a256fee688fda3d fade8da998d35c8da97a15f0556949ad371e5347 M      net

thanks,
Hiroshi

> 
> Thanks,
> -Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@xxxxxxxxx>