Re: [dpdk-users] vhost, vxlan, and nic TSO trouble.

[Vivek Gupta <vivek-g@hcl.com>]

How are you bursting packets from vhost interface to ixgbe nic?

Thanks & Regards
Vivek
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From: users [users-bounces@dpdk.org] on behalf of Matthias Gatto [matthias.gatto@outscale.com]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 2:27 PM
To: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] vhost, vxlan, and nic TSO trouble.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Matthias Gatto
<matthias.gatto@outscale.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on a project using DPDK:
>
> We are receiving packets from a vhost interface, then we encapsulate
> them in vxlan packets, and finally we burst them into an ixgbe nic.
>
> We set txq_flags of ixgbe nic to 0 in order to use offloading capability.
>
> During encapsulation, we add vxlan header length to l2_len field inside mbuf.
> It seems that l3_len, l4_len and tso_segsz are already set by vhost.
>
> When we use iperf3 to test our architecture, it seems that:
> - Packets with PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM and without PKT_TX_TCP_SEG  have a
> correct checksum.
> - Packets with PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM and with PKT_TX_TCP_SEG are segmented
> but have a bad checksum.
>
> Do you think I've missed something ?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> -- Matthias Gatto.

ping


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