[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] netdev-dpdk: Disable NIC offloading and multiseg mbufs

[Thomas Graf]

On 06/24/14 at 04:05pm, Daniele Di Proietto wrote:
> We do not use any offloading (now) or multiple segments per packet, so
> we might as well disable those features while configuring the NIC.
> 
> This could give performance improvements. For ixgbe, for example, this change
> allows the driver to use a simpler tx routine, resulting in throuput
> improvements (~7.5%)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <ddiproietto at vmware.com>

LGTM

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>