Forgot to say - see the effects using ethtool -k eth0 before and after.

Dave

On 15/12/2011, at 5:36 PM, Dave Whitla <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you enter the following in a shell you will see that disabling tx csum 
> offload implies that other features are disabled also:
> 
> ethtool -K eth0 tx off
> 
> Dave
> 
> On 15/12/2011, at 5:26 PM, "Sheili Mittal" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Can you reply this also with your testing experience:-
>> 
>> I go the list of Linux h/w offloading and commands to enable or disable
>> it. Like :-
>> 
>> Ethtool -K <interface> <offload type> <on/off>
>> 
>> So for H/w offload to test with OVS , should I enable this from Linux
>> machine only or this functionality is on virtual machine also
>> 
>> What set-up you used for this?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sheili
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Whitla [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: 15 December 2011 12:51
>> To: Jesse Gross
>> Cc: Sheili Mittal; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] H/w offloading list for OVS 1.2.2
>> 
>> Sheili, 
>> 
>> A particular case to be aware of is when combining Linux bridging with
>> 802.1q vlans. Hardware tx checksum offload does not work properly in
>> this scenario, so it is advisable to disable tx checksum offloading in
>> virtual machines which connect to vifs mapped to a vlan or a trunk port
>> to which untagged ports are also bridged. In my personal testing of OVS
>> the same applies.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On 15/12/2011, at 2:17 PM, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Sheili Mittal
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please give me list which OVS 1.2.2 supports for hardware offloading
>> like
>>>> checksum offloading,jumbo grames, tagging etc..
>>> 
>>> It's the same as the rest of Linux.
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