Add UDP GSO/GRO support

[marcosfsch]

• Version of iperf3 (or development branch, such as master or
  3.1-STABLE) to which this pull request applies:
  master

• Issues fixed (if any):
  Rebase of PR 1309 including missing declarations on "iperf.h" and exception when using without "-l"

• Brief description of code changes (suitable for use as a commit message):
  Add UDP GSO/GRO support

[gegles]

What's the status on this? My team and I are very interested in using this feature! Thx!

[gegles]

Just FYI, after spending a little bit of time on this and an easy rebase on master, I tried running it and got the following core dumped:

./src/iperf3 -c localhost -u -b 20G --gsro
Floating point exception (core dumped)

I will see if I can debug... anybody else has seen this?

Has anybody got this feature working correctly?

[davidBar-On]

The exception happens in iperf_api.c/iperf_parse_arguments():

        test->settings->gso_dg_size = blksize;
        /* use the multiple of datagram size for the best efficiency. */
        test->settings->gso_bf_size = (test->settings->gso_bf_size / test->settings->gso_dg_size) * test->settings->gso_dg_size;

The problem is that for UDP tests, when -l is not set, blksize is 0. (As stated some lines above these lines: blksize = 0; /* try to dynamically determine from MSS */).

Two more comments:

1. When -l is set to less than 1008 bytes, net.c/udp_sendmsg_gso() prints something like msg: 4294967295 != 65390 (iperf3 continues to run but I am not sure if this is not existing iperf3 bug).

2. I got the following compilation warning:

net.c: In function ‘udp_sendmsg_gso’:
net.c:569:15: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
  569 |  iov.iov_base = data;

[malladisankar]

Can someone please update if there is any update on these commits? Are these available in master branch?

[atorgue]

Hi,
No update on this PR ? No other way to test GSO NIC feature using iperf ?