[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] net/af_packet: get 'framesz' from the iface's MTU

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Dec 21 13:21:02 CET 2018


On 12/17/2018 9:21 AM, Lam, Tiago wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> On 28/11/2018 13:33, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 11/28/2018 1:12 PM, Lam, Tiago wrote:
>>> On 27/11/2018 17:43, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>>>> On 11/20/2018 10:26 AM, Tiago Lam wrote:
>>>>> Use the underlying MTU to calculate the framsize to be used for the mmap
>>>>> RINGs. This is to make it more flexible on deployments with different
>>>>> MTU requirements, instead of using a pre-defined value of 2048B.
>>>>
>>>> This behavior change should be documented in af_packet documentation which is
>>>> missing unfortunately.
>>>> Would you able to introduce the initial/basic af_packet doc to at least to
>>>> document device argument? If not please let me know, I can work on it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the review, Ferruh.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I don't mind cooking something up and submitting here for review;
>>> I'll wait a couple of days for a reply from John W. before proceeding,
>>> though.
>>
>> Thanks, appreciated. Agreed to wait a little.
>>
>>>
>>> But given there's no documentation for af_packet yet, do you prefer to
>>> wait for that to be available, and apply it all together? Or could that
>>> be applied later as part of another patch?
>>
>> Both are OK, depends on your availability.
>>
>> I think it is better, to show the history, first patch as the documentation
>> patch for existing behavior and your patch updating framsz usage (3/3) to update
>> that document as well.
> 
> As agreed, I just sent a patch with an initial take on adding some docs
> for af_packet. Once that's in I'll submit another revision of this
> patchset, including an update to the documentation.
> 
> Just an aside, patch 1/3 of this series is a bugfix, it could go in
> irrespective of the documentation, it seems.

Agreed. Doc patch is merged, I will get first patch and will wait for a new
version for next.



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