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From: "Lazarenko, Vlad (WorldQuant)" <Vlad.Lazarenko@worldquant.com>
To: 'Stephen Hemminger' <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] When do we get non-contiguous mbufs from rte_eth_rx_burst?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:20:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <790E2AC11206AC46B8F4BB82078E34F80627E4E8@EXUSMBX06.AD.MLP.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170209143519.7fd6061a@xeon-e3>

Stephen,

Got it. Thank you bunches!

- V

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 5:35 PM
> To: Lazarenko, Vlad (WorldQuant)
> Cc: users@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] When do we get non-contiguous mbufs from
> rte_eth_rx_burst?
> 
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 22:17:56 +0000
> "Lazarenko, Vlad (WorldQuant)" <Vlad.Lazarenko@worldquant.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Does anyone happen to know if it is possible to receive non-contiguous
> mbufs from rte_eth_rx_burst? If so, when would this happen? I am thinking
> that NICs with LSO enabled could possibly do this if data does not fit into
> RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE? But if the packet fits, I don't see why the
> driver could possibly split that across multiple mbufs. Any insight is highly
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vlad
> 
> 
> Any driver that handles jumbo frames is going to return a multiple segment
> mbuf when given a mbuf pool with smaller buffers. It is common to create
> 2K mbuf pool and handle 9K frames.
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-09 22:17 Lazarenko, Vlad (WorldQuant)
2017-02-09 22:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-02-10 16:20   ` Lazarenko, Vlad (WorldQuant) [this message]

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