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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] net/virtio: add offload support
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:14:10 +0200
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Hi Yuanhan,

On 10/11/2016 01:35 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly, apologize for so late review. It's been forgotten :(
>
> BTW, please feel free to ping me in future if I made no response
> in one or two weeks!
>
> I haven't reviewed it carefully yet (something I will do tomorrow).
> Before that, few quick questions.
>
> Firstly, would you write down some test steps? Honestly, I'm not
> quite sure how that works without the TCP/IP stack.

Not sure I'm getting your question.
The test plan described in the cover letter works without any dpdk 
tcp/ip stack. It uses testpmd, which is able to bridge packets and ask 
for TCP segmentation.


> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:00:11AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
>> This patchset, targetted for 16.11, introduces the support of rx and tx
>> offload in virtio pmd.  To achieve this, some new mbuf flags must be
>> introduced, as discussed in [1].
>>
>> It applies on top of:
>> - software packet type [2]
>> - testpmd enhancements [3]
>
> I didn't do the search. Have the two got merged?

As of now, it's not merged yet. I think Thomas is on it.

Regards,
Olivier