Re: [PATCH v1] virtio-net: Fix to avoid using reserved feature bits

On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> sorry if I am unclear, I think it's too late to move RSS really. It has
> been out there for two years. The reason we can be reasonably sure no
> one implemented the offloads so far is because the set offloads command
> is broken and no one complained.  We need to fix them in the spec,
> current one is broken. So the tunnel offloads can move if
> it's convenient.

I understand the argument WRT RSS. I think and hope RSS and GSO over
tunnel offload can follow different paths: I would opt to move around
the tunnel offload bit in the reserved range (and possibly make a
little more room there for other future features).

Cheers,

Paolo