[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: announce new mbuf field for LRO

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jun 12 18:38:17 CEST 2023


On Tue,  6 Aug 2019 14:56:23 +0000
Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com> wrote:

> The API breakage is because the ``tso_segsz`` field was documented for
> LRO.
> 
> The ``tso_segsz`` field in mbuf indicates the size of each segment in
> the LRO packet in Rx path and should be provided by the LRO packet
> port.
> 
> While the generic LRO packet may aggregate different segments sizes in
> one packet, it is impossible to expose this information for each segment
> by one field and it doesn't make sense to expose all the segments sizes
> in the mbuf.
> 
> A new field may be added as union with the above field to expose the
> number of segments aggregated in the LRO packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>

I assume LRO worked out how to use dynamic field for this.
And the rest of this patchset is no longer relevant.


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