[dpdk-dev] vmxnet3 RX VLAN Strip offload incorrect behaviour

Yong Wang yongwang at vmware.com
Fri Apr 6 19:42:07 CEST 2018


Padam,

As far as I know, this feature works.  What DPDK version did you use?  Is there any port reconfiguration (stop/start/mtu change, etc) that could lose your vlan offload settings (a dump of the port config at runtime will be able to confirm this)?  Can you also post a snippet of packet capture of the vlan traffic received?

Yong 

On 4/6/18, 6:51 AM, "dev on behalf of Padam Jeet Singh" <dev-bounces at dpdk.org on behalf of padam.singh at inventum.net> wrote:

    Hi,
    
    When configuring the vmxnet3 based ethernet device, the RX VLAN Strip offload does not work as it usually does with other real NICs which support this function.
    
    When configuring with rxmode.hw_vlan_strip = 1, the ipackets statistic does not increase when a VLAN ether type frame is received on the port and it is also not received on queue RX.
    However, when configuring rxmode.hw_vlan_strip = 0 ,the ipackets statistic increases as well as frames arrives with VLAN header.
    
    Though calling  rte_eth_dev_set_vlan_offload(port, ETH_VLAN_STRIP_OFFLOAD) returns a success, however VLAN stripping on RX does not work.
    
    TX VLAN INSERT offload on the other hand works just fine.
    
    Is this a bug in vmxnet3 driver of dpdk?
    
    Thanks,
    Padam



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