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From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@linaro.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] ixgbe TX function selection
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:18:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D5EB07.9070706@linaro.org> (raw)

Hi,

I've noticed that ixgbe_set_tx_function() selects the non-SG function 
even if (dev->data->scattered_rx == 1). That seems a bit dangerous, as 
you can turn that on inadvertently when you don't set max_rx_pkt_len and 
buffer size in certain ways. I've learnt it in the hard way, as my 
segmented packets were leaking memory on the TX path, which doesn't 
cries if you send out segmented packets.
How should this case be treated? Assert on the non-SG TX side for the 
'next' pointer? Or turning on SG if RX has it? It doesn't seem to be a 
solid way as other interfaces still can have SG turned on.

Regards,

Zoltan

             reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-01 19:18 Zoltan Kiss [this message]
2016-03-04  1:47 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-03-04 11:59   ` Zoltan Kiss
2016-03-10  7:51 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-03-17 17:10   ` Zoltan Kiss
2016-03-18  0:45     ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-03-18 13:33       ` Zoltan Kiss
2016-03-19 15:46         ` Ananyev, Konstantin

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