[dpdk-users] vhost, vxlan, and nic TSO trouble.

[Matthias Gatto]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Matthias Gatto
<matthias.gatto at outscale.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on a project using DPDK:
>
> We are receiving packets from a vhost interface, then we encapsulate
> them in vxlan packets, and finally we burst them into an ixgbe nic.
>
> We set txq_flags of ixgbe nic to 0 in order to use offloading capability.
>
> During encapsulation, we add vxlan header length to l2_len field inside mbuf.
> It seems that l3_len, l4_len and tso_segsz are already set by vhost.
>
> When we use iperf3 to test our architecture, it seems that:
> - Packets with PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM and without PKT_TX_TCP_SEG  have a
> correct checksum.
> - Packets with PKT_TX_TCP_CKSUM and with PKT_TX_TCP_SEG are segmented
> but have a bad checksum.
>
> Do you think I've missed something ?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> -- Matthias Gatto.

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