>-----Original Message----- >From: Ananyev, Konstantin >Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 2:36 PM >To: Kavanagh, Mark B <[email protected]>; [email protected] >Cc: Hu, Jiayu <[email protected]>; Tan, Jianfeng <[email protected]>; >Yigit, Ferruh <[email protected]>; [email protected] >Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 2/6] gso: add TCP/IPv4 GSO support > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ananyev, Konstantin >> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 2:32 PM >> To: Kavanagh, Mark B <[email protected]>; [email protected] >> Cc: Hu, Jiayu <[email protected]>; Tan, Jianfeng <[email protected]>; >Yigit, Ferruh <[email protected]>; [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 2/6] gso: add TCP/IPv4 GSO support >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Kavanagh, Mark B >> > Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 5:46 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Cc: Hu, Jiayu <[email protected]>; Tan, Jianfeng ><[email protected]>; Ananyev, Konstantin <[email protected]>; >> Yigit, >> > Ferruh <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Kavanagh, Mark B ><[email protected]> >> > Subject: [PATCH v6 2/6] gso: add TCP/IPv4 GSO support >> > >> > From: Jiayu Hu <[email protected]> >> > >> > This patch adds GSO support for TCP/IPv4 packets. Supported packets >> > may include a single VLAN tag. TCP/IPv4 GSO doesn't check if input >> > packets have correct checksums, and doesn't update checksums for >> > output packets (the responsibility for this lies with the application). >> > Additionally, TCP/IPv4 GSO doesn't process IP fragmented packets. >> > >> > TCP/IPv4 GSO uses two chained MBUFs, one direct MBUF and one indrect >> > MBUF, to organize an output packet. Note that we refer to these two >> > chained MBUFs as a two-segment MBUF. The direct MBUF stores the packet >> > header, while the indirect mbuf simply points to a location within the >> > original packet's payload. Consequently, use of the GSO library requires >> > multi-segment MBUF support in the TX functions of the NIC driver. >> > >> > If a packet is GSO'd, TCP/IPv4 GSO reduces its MBUF refcnt by 1. As a >> > result, when all of its GSOed segments are freed, the packet is freed >> > automatically. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <[email protected]> >> > Signed-off-by: Mark Kavanagh <[email protected]> >> > Tested-by: Lei Yao <[email protected]> >> > --- >> > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst | 12 +++ >> > lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_log.h | 1 + >> > lib/librte_gso/Makefile | 2 + >> > lib/librte_gso/gso_common.c | 153 >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > lib/librte_gso/gso_common.h | 141 >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > lib/librte_gso/gso_tcp4.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > lib/librte_gso/gso_tcp4.h | 74 +++++++++++++++ >> > lib/librte_gso/rte_gso.c | 52 ++++++++++- >> > 8 files changed, 536 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> > create mode 100644 lib/librte_gso/gso_common.c >> > create mode 100644 lib/librte_gso/gso_common.h >> > create mode 100644 lib/librte_gso/gso_tcp4.c >> > create mode 100644 lib/librte_gso/gso_tcp4.h >> > >> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst >b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst >> > index 7508be7..c414f73 100644 >> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst >> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst >> > @@ -41,6 +41,18 @@ New Features >> > Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. >> > ========================================================= >> > >> > +* **Added the Generic Segmentation Offload Library.** >> > + >> > + Added the Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) library to enable >> > + applications to split large packets (e.g. MTU is 64KB) into small >> > + ones (e.g. MTU is 1500B). Supported packet types are: >> > + >> > + * TCP/IPv4 packets, which may include a single VLAN tag. > >As a nit: I think it doesn't matter as you are relying on mbuf->l2_len. >Konstantin >
Okay, I'll remove any mention of VLAN tags in the description - thanks!
