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From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: zhihong.wang@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] net/virtio: improve offload check performance
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:10:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180605031057.GA5404@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b8d8122-5521-2f65-51e8-224f49f8fb57@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 04:29:56PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> On 06/04/2018 01:55 PM, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:47:58PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
[...]
> > > @@ -253,13 +246,15 @@ virtqueue_enqueue_xmit(struct virtnet_tx *txvq, struct rte_mbuf *cookie,
> > >   	struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr;
> > >   	int offload;
> > > -	offload = tx_offload_enabled(vq->hw);
> > >   	head_idx = vq->vq_desc_head_idx;
> > >   	idx = head_idx;
> > >   	dxp = &vq->vq_descx[idx];
> > >   	dxp->cookie = (void *)cookie;
> > >   	dxp->ndescs = needed;
> > > +	offload = vq->hw->has_tx_offload &&
> > > +		(cookie->ol_flags & PKT_TX_OFFLOAD_MASK);
> > 
> > If features aren't negotiated, I think there is no need to
> > check ol_flags and update the net header.
> 
> Isn't what the code is doing?
> has_tx_offload will be false if none of the Tx offload features have
> been negotiated, so ol_flags won't be checked in that case.

Hmm.. Somehow I treated 'and' as 'or'..

I have another question. When 'can_push' is false
and 'vq->hw->has_tx_offload' is true, there will
be a chance that virtio net hdr won't be zeroed
when ol_flags doesn't specify any Tx offloads.

Best regards,
Tiwei Bie

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-05  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-01 12:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] net/virtio: Tx path selection and offload improvements Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-01 12:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] net/virtio: use simple path for Tx even if Rx mergeable Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-01 12:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] net/vhost: improve Tx path selection Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-04 12:25   ` Tiwei Bie
2018-06-01 12:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] net/virtio: don't use simple Rx path if TCP LRO requested Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-04 11:59   ` Tiwei Bie
2018-06-04 14:32     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-05 13:39       ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-01 12:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] net/virtio: improve offload check performance Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-04 11:55   ` Tiwei Bie
2018-06-04 14:29     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-05  3:10       ` Tiwei Bie [this message]
2018-06-05  9:43         ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-05 11:20           ` Tiwei Bie
2018-06-05 11:58             ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-06-05 12:21               ` Tiwei Bie
2018-06-04  7:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] net/virtio: Tx path selection and offload improvements Maxime Coquelin

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