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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen-OTpzqLSitTUnbdJkjeBofR2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
To: "Czaus, Tomasz" <tomasz.czaus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" <dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: One pkt in mbuf chain - virtio pmd driver
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:36:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140807093651.09d2f483@haswell.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4060631EACBB65409E09BBBDAF62A4C5347B4F29-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 06:19:58 +0000
"Czaus, Tomasz" <tomasz.czaus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Does virtio pmd driver support scenario when a frame fits in mbuf chain, this means all headers (eth/ipv4/tcp) are located in first mbuf and user data is located in next mbuf. I have asked the same question on dpdk-ovs mailing group, here is a thread and more details:
> 
> https://lists.01.org/pipermail/dpdk-ovs/2014-August/001557.html
> 
> Best Regards,
> Tomasz Czaus

Existing DPDK 1.7 virtio driver does not.
I wrote a virtio DPDK driver (before the 1.6 one) that does handle it, so it is possible.

I have some patches to handle multi-part mbuf and messages, based on backport
from that driver but they are untested.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07  6:19 One pkt in mbuf chain - virtio pmd driver Czaus, Tomasz
     [not found] ` <4060631EACBB65409E09BBBDAF62A4C5347B4F29-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-07  7:06   ` Xie, Huawei
     [not found]     ` <C37D651A908B024F974696C65296B57B0F25C4F3-0J0gbvR4kThpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-07  7:18       ` Ouyang, Changchun
2014-08-08  5:51       ` Czaus, Tomasz
2014-08-07 16:36   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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