[ovs-dev] The Patch netdev-dpdk: add TSO support for vhost-user ports

Michael Qiu 08005325 at 163.com
Tue Oct 11 16:49:45 UTC 2016


Hi, Mark


OK, once it's ready, pls let me know and I'm glade to help to test it.


BTW, you mentioned the gap, is that the TSO and CSUM of tunnel offload? 
I'm familiar with it, and I hope I could do something on it if possible.


2016/10/11 22:34, Kavanagh, Mark B :
>> Hi,  all
>>
>>
>> This patch is very important for users want to improve the performance
>> of the large packets.
>>
>>
>> But you know, in data center, lots of networks using vxlan, so if it
>> supports vxlan, then it will be very useful.
>>
>>
>> Would you guys has a plan to support it? I would like to help test it,
>> or work together on it?
> Hi Michael,
>
> Some work has already been done to enable TSO over VxLAN, but it was blocked until recently, on account of gaps in the DPKD i40e PMD's support for tunnel offload.
>
> We believe that those gaps have now been addressed; our current focus is on ironing out the issues in TSO support over flat and VLAN networks - once that's done, we plan to resume work on VxLAN support (and GRE, IPinIP).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark
>      
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>

-- 
Thanks,
Michael





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