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Hyper-V network driver
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Compatibility
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This driver is compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 and
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Windows 10.
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Features
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Checksum offload
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The netvsc driver supports checksum offload as long as the
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Hyper-V host version does. Windows Server 2016 and Azure
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support checksum offload for TCP and UDP for both IPv4 and
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IPv6. Windows Server 2012 only supports checksum offload for TCP.
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Receive Side Scaling
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Hyper-V supports receive side scaling. For TCP & UDP, packets can
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be distributed among available queues based on IP address and port
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number.
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For TCP & UDP, we can switch hash level between L3 and L4 by ethtool
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command. TCP/UDP over IPv4 and v6 can be set differently. The default
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hash level is L4. We currently only allow switching TX hash level
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from within the guests.
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On Azure, fragmented UDP packets have high loss rate with L4
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hashing. Using L3 hashing is recommended in this case.
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For example, for UDP over IPv4 on eth0:
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To include UDP port numbers in hashing:
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ethtool -N eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 sdfn
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To exclude UDP port numbers in hashing:
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ethtool -N eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 sd
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To show UDP hash level:
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ethtool -n eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4
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Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO
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The driver supports GRO and it is enabled by default. GRO coalesces
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like packets and significantly reduces CPU usage under heavy Rx
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load.
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Large Receive Offload (LRO), or Receive Side Coalescing (RSC)
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The driver supports LRO/RSC in the vSwitch feature. It reduces the per packet
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processing overhead by coalescing multiple TCP segments when possible. The
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feature is enabled by default on VMs running on Windows Server 2019 and
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later. It may be changed by ethtool command:
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ethtool -K eth0 lro on
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ethtool -K eth0 lro off
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SR-IOV support
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Hyper-V supports SR-IOV as a hardware acceleration option. If SR-IOV
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is enabled in both the vSwitch and the guest configuration, then the
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Virtual Function (VF) device is passed to the guest as a PCI
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device. In this case, both a synthetic (netvsc) and VF device are
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visible in the guest OS and both NIC's have the same MAC address.
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The VF is enslaved by netvsc device. The netvsc driver will transparently
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switch the data path to the VF when it is available and up.
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Network state (addresses, firewall, etc) should be applied only to the
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netvsc device; the slave device should not be accessed directly in
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most cases. The exceptions are if some special queue discipline or
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flow direction is desired, these should be applied directly to the
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VF slave device.
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Receive Buffer
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Packets are received into a receive area which is created when device
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is probed. The receive area is broken into MTU sized chunks and each may
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contain one or more packets. The number of receive sections may be changed
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via ethtool Rx ring parameters.
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There is a similar send buffer which is used to aggregate packets for sending.
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The send area is broken into chunks of 6144 bytes, each of section may
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contain one or more packets. The send buffer is an optimization, the driver
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will use slower method to handle very large packets or if the send buffer
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area is exhausted.
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