From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:50:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20140310085048.71a49faf@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Prashant Upadhyaya Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:30:48 +0530 Prashant Upadhyaya wrote: > Hi Srini, > > Thanks, I could also make it work, thanks to your cue ! > > Now then, this multi-segment not being supported in vmxnet3 driver is a big party-pooper for me. Unfortunately in my usecase, I do indeed make heavy use of multisegment buffers for sending out the data, so my usecase has failed and I will have to fix that. > > Also, can you please adivse how much is the max data rates you have been able to achieve with one vmxnet3 10G port. > > Thanks a lot for the advice once again. > > Regards > -Prashant I am integrating our driver with the 1.6.1 DPDK driver. We support multi-segment, if you want I will backport that feature first.