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

Daniele Di Proietto ddiproietto at vmware.com
Wed Jun 25 20:03:47 UTC 2014


Thanks
On Jun 25, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Pravin Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com> wrote:
>> 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>
> 
> Pushed to master.
> 
> Thanks




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