Re: [PATCH] net/gve: fix RX buffer size alignment

2023-11-13 Thread Joshua Washington
Hello Ferruh, But I am not clear with what is "minimum required by DPDK", since > application can provide smaller mbufs. > Also not clear why this alignment cause problem only with mbuf size > bigger than 2048 + 128 bytes. Can you please clarify? > My apologies, the statement "minimum required by

Re: [PATCH] net/gve: fix RX buffer size alignment

2023-11-10 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 11/11/2023 12:34 AM, Joshua Washington wrote: > In GVE, both queue formats have RX buffer size alignment requirements > which are not respected whenever the mbuf size is greater than the > minimum required by DPDK (2048 + 128). > Hi Joshua, We don't have a way to inform application about the a

[PATCH] net/gve: fix RX buffer size alignment

2023-11-10 Thread Joshua Washington
In GVE, both queue formats have RX buffer size alignment requirements which are not respected whenever the mbuf size is greater than the minimum required by DPDK (2048 + 128). This causes the driver to break silently in initialization, and no queues are created, leading to no network traffic. This