From: Ryan Wolfe <rnwolfe@google.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: joshwash@google.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/gve: advertise Rx scatter in GQI queue format
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:28:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019022824.189319-1-rnwolfe@google.com> (raw)
Since jumbo frame support for GQI, a frame that does not fit in one Rx
buffer arrives as several descriptors with GVE_RXF_PKT_CONT set on all
but the last, and gve_rx_burst() chains them into one multi-segment
mbuf. The driver never reports RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER, though, so
an application that enables multi-segment receive only when the port
claims it treats every packet as one segment. VPP is one: it masks its
requested Rx offloads with rx_offload_capa, so on a GQI gVNIC it never
sets its multi-segment flag, reads only the first buffer of a jumbo
frame and drops it as malformed. With 4 KB buffers that caps the usable
MTU near 4000 bytes on a VPC whose MTU is 8896.
Report SCATTER for GQI. DQO posts one buffer per packet and does not
chain, so it is unchanged.
Fixes: 496d4d2c8b54 ("net/gve: support jumbo frame for GQI")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wolfe <rnwolfe@google.com>
---
.mailmap | 1 +
doc/guides/nics/features/gve.ini | 1 +
drivers/net/gve/gve_ethdev.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 6d9e262cfb..87c544947c 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -1477,6 +1477,7 @@ Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Rupesh Chiluka <rchiluka@marvell.com>
Rushil Gupta <rushilg@google.com>
Ryan E Hall <ryan.e.hall@intel.com>
+Ryan Wolfe <rnwolfe@google.com>
Sabyasachi Sengupta <sabyasg@hpe.com>
Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena@nxp.com> <sachin.saxena@oss.nxp.com>
Sagar Abhang <sabhang@brocade.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/gve.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/gve.ini
index 9f3835edf6..5566511b6b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features/gve.ini
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/gve.ini
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
Speed capabilities = Y
Queue start/stop = Y
MTU update = Y
+Scattered Rx = P
TSO = Y
RSS hash = Y
RSS key update = Y
diff --git a/drivers/net/gve/gve_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/gve/gve_ethdev.c
index 3c8d1a76e4..92a5a7679f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gve/gve_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gve/gve_ethdev.c
@@ -897,6 +897,11 @@ gve_dev_info_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_dev_info *dev_info)
dev_info->min_mtu = RTE_ETHER_MIN_MTU;
dev_info->rx_offload_capa = RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH;
+ /* GQI receives a frame larger than one Rx buffer as a chain of
+ * buffers (gve_rx_burst follows GVE_RXF_PKT_CONT).
+ */
+ if (gve_is_gqi(priv))
+ dev_info->rx_offload_capa |= RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER;
if (priv->clk_read_type != GVE_DEV_CLK_UNSUPPORTED &&
priv->nic_ts_report_mz != NULL)
dev_info->rx_offload_capa |= RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_TIMESTAMP;
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 11:48 UTC|newest]
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2026-10-19 2:28 Ryan Wolfe [this message]
2026-10-19 17:01 ` [PATCH] net/gve: advertise Rx scatter in GQI queue format Stephen Hemminger
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