[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: support UDP Fragmentation Offload

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Nov 21 08:12:36 CET 2017


On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:56:52 +0800
Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu at intel.com> wrote:

> In virtio, UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) includes two parts: host UFO
> and guest UFO. Guest UFO means the frontend can receive large UDP packets,
> and host UFO means the backend can receive large UDP packets. This patch
> supports host UFO and guest UFO for vhost-user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu at intel.com>

This may no longer be a desirable feature to implement.
UFO was just deprecated and removed from Linux.
It had no useful benefit.


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