[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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