[virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH requirements v5 7/7] net-features: Add header data split requirements

[David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>]

On Friday, 2023-08-18 at 07:35:57 +03, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Add header data split requirements for the receive packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>

Acked-by: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>

> ---
>  net-workstream/features-1.4.md | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net-workstream/features-1.4.md b/net-workstream/features-1.4.md
> index 31aa587..7a56fa8 100644
> --- a/net-workstream/features-1.4.md
> +++ b/net-workstream/features-1.4.md
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ together is desired while updating the virtio net interface.
>  3. Virtqueue notification coalescing re-arming support
>  4  Virtqueue receive flow filters (RFF)
>  5. Device timestamp for tx and rx packets
> +6. Header data split for the receive virtqueue
>  
>  # 3. Requirements
>  ## 3.1 Device counters
> @@ -368,3 +369,15 @@ c. If/when virtio switch object is implemented, support ingress/egress flow
>     point of reception from the network.
>  3. The device should provide a receive packet timestamp in a single DMA
>     transaction along with the rest of the receive completion fields.
> +
> +## 3.6 Header data split for the receive virtqueue
> +1. The device should be able to DMA the packet header and data to two different
> +   memory locations, this enables driver and networking stack to perform zero
> +   copy to application buffer(s).
> +2. The driver should be able to configure maximum header buffer size per
> +   virtqueue.
> +3. The header buffer to be in a physically contiguous memory per virtqueue
> +4. The device should be able to indicate header data split in the receive
> +   completion.
> +5. The device should be able to zero pad the header buffer when the received
> +   header is shorter than cpu cache line size.
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