[ovs-dev] The Patch netdev-dpdk: add TSO support for vhost-user ports
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Fri Oct 14 10:14:40 UTC 2016
OK, Thanks for your info.
BTW, you mentioned the gap, is it the tunneling tso can't work correctly for multi-segments mbuf, and after some packets, guest is unable to xmit packets(dpdk driver failed to work any more)?
Thanks,
Michael
2016年10月14日,下午5:15,Kavanagh, Mark B <mark.b.kavanagh at intel.com> :
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>> Hi, Mark
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>> OK, once it's ready, pls let me know and I'm glade to help to test it.
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>> 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.
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> Yes, that's what it was.
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> Commits have recently been introduced to DPDK that introduce additional flags for tunnel offloading, but I haven't had a chance to test them with in my TSO+VxLAN codebase.
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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>> 2016/10/11 22:34, Kavanagh, Mark B :
>>>> Hi, all
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>>>> This patch is very important for users want to improve the performance
>>>> of the large packets.
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>>>> But you know, in data center, lots of networks using vxlan, so if it
>>>> supports vxlan, then it will be very useful.
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>>>> Would you guys has a plan to support it? I would like to help test it,
>>>> or work together on it?
>>> Hi Michael,
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>>> 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).
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>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael
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>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
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