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Subject: [dpdk-users] Transmit Chained Buffers On mlx5
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Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to transmit a chained buffer, and I can't
find any examples or threads on this mailing list to do so. My assumptions
are:

1) Only the first mbuf contains the Ethernet and other packet headers, and
all the rest are essentially just appended to the end of that.
2) Once transmitted, the driver will construct all links of the chain into
a single jumboframe.
3) DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_MULTI_SEGS must be set in the TX offloads.

After setting up everything as above, I construct a chain of buffers using
rte_pktmbuf_chain. When I call rte_eth_tx_burst, it reports 1 packet sent
for the first packet with 2 segments, then 0 packets sent with packets
containing 20+ segments. Is there some limitation with chaining that I'm
hitting? It seems the maximum number of chains is set to UINT16_MAX in
DPDK, so 20 should be plenty small.

I'm using ConnectX-5/mlx with DPDK 19.05.

Thanks!