virtio_net: Bypass backends for MTU feature negotiation

This patch adds a new internal "x-mtu-bypass-backend" property
to bypass backends for MTU feature negotiation.

When this property is set, the MTU feature is negotiated as soon
as supported by the guest and a MTU value is set via the host_mtu
parameter. In case the backend advertises the feature (e.g. DPDK's
vhost-user backend), the feature negotiation is propagated down to
the backend.

When this property is not set, the backend has to support the MTU
feature for its negotiation to succeed.

For compatibility purpose, this property is disabled for machine
types v2.9 and older.

Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
index 98bd683f31..9a3d769aa2 100644
--- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c
+++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
@@ -589,7 +589,15 @@ static uint64_t virtio_net_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint64_t features,
     if (!get_vhost_net(nc->peer)) {
         return features;
     }
-    return vhost_net_get_features(get_vhost_net(nc->peer), features);
+    features = vhost_net_get_features(get_vhost_net(nc->peer), features);
+    vdev->backend_features = features;
+
+    if (n->mtu_bypass_backend &&
+            (n->host_features & 1ULL << VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU)) {
+        features |= (1ULL << VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU);
+    }
+
+    return features;
 }
 
 static uint64_t virtio_net_bad_features(VirtIODevice *vdev)
@@ -640,6 +648,11 @@ static void virtio_net_set_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint64_t features)
     VirtIONet *n = VIRTIO_NET(vdev);
     int i;
 
+    if (n->mtu_bypass_backend &&
+            !virtio_has_feature(vdev->backend_features, VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU)) {
+        features &= ~(1ULL << VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU);
+    }
+
     virtio_net_set_multiqueue(n,
                               virtio_has_feature(features, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ));
 
@@ -2093,6 +2106,8 @@ static Property virtio_net_properties[] = {
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("rx_queue_size", VirtIONet, net_conf.rx_queue_size,
                        VIRTIO_NET_RX_QUEUE_DEFAULT_SIZE),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("host_mtu", VirtIONet, net_conf.mtu, 0),
+    DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("x-mtu-bypass-backend", VirtIONet, mtu_bypass_backend,
+                     true),
     DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
 };