> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Duyck [mailto:[email protected]]
> It is interesting that you mention the 82598.  To the best of my
> knowledge it does have the same behavior as the igb parts currently
> have in regards to packet split.  However the follow-on to that part,
> the
> 82599 does not have the same behavior.  This has caused issues that
> have led us to defeature packet split in both the ixgbe and igb
> drivers.  The changes are already in place in the ixgbe driver, and the
> next release of the igb driver will no longer make use of the header
> split feature.

Thank you for replying.

So the change in behavior that I think you are talking about is in the 82599 
errata that indicates Header splitting is broken and should not be used in the 
82599.  Is Intel planning on dropping the feature in their hardware?  Or is it 
because one particular chip is buggy, we want to remove software support on all 
chips?  Or something else (e.g. performance not enhanced enough)?
 

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