Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] vsock/virtio: change the maximum packet size allowed

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 11:00:01 EST


On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:30:30PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Since now we are able to split packets, we can avoid limiting
> their sizes to VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE.
> Instead, we can use VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE as the max
> packet size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>


OK so this is kind of like GSO where we are passing
64K packets to the vsock and then split at the
low level.


> ---
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> index 56fab3f03d0e..94cc0fa3e848 100644
> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> @@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ static int virtio_transport_send_pkt_info(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
> vvs = vsk->trans;
>
> /* we can send less than pkt_len bytes */
> - if (pkt_len > VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE)
> - pkt_len = VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE;
> + if (pkt_len > VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE)
> + pkt_len = VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE;
>
> /* virtio_transport_get_credit might return less than pkt_len credit */
> pkt_len = virtio_transport_get_credit(vvs, pkt_len);
> --
> 2.20.1