Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/6] Support TCP/IPv4, VxLAN, and GRE GSO in DPDK

2017-10-05 Thread Kavanagh, Mark B
>From: Ananyev, Konstantin >Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 2:23 PM >To: Kavanagh, Mark B ; dev@dpdk.org >Cc: Hu, Jiayu ; Tan, Jianfeng ; >Yigit, Ferruh ; tho...@monjalon.net >Subject: RE: [PATCH v7 0/6] Support TCP/IPv4, VxLAN, and GRE GSO in DPDK > >Hi Mark, > >> >> Generic Segmentation Offload

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/6] Support TCP/IPv4, VxLAN, and GRE GSO in DPDK

2017-10-05 Thread Ananyev, Konstantin
Hi Mark, > > Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) is a SW technique to split large > packets into small ones. Akin to TSO, GSO enables applications to > operate on large packets, thus reducing per-packet processing overhead. > > To enable more flexibility to applications, DPDK GSO is implemented >