Good day. While trying to test vmxnet3s's LSO functionality under Illumos (it is an OpenSolaris-based OS), I noticed, that throughput was dramatically slow - about 200-300 Kbits/Sec. Investigation led me to the fact that HW_LSO flag is resolved in a wrong way in '
Here is the patch that fixes the problem: @@ -103,13 +103,19 @@ vmxnet3_tx_prepare_offload(vmxnet3_softc_t *dp, mblk_t *mp) { int ret = 0; - uint32_t start, stuff, value, flags; + uint32_t start, stuff, value, flags, lsoflags, mss; ol->om = VMXNET3_OM_NONE; ol->hlen = 0; ol->msscof = 0; hcksum_retrieve(mp, NULL, NULL, &start, &stuff, NULL, &value, &flags); + + mac_lso_get(mp, &mss, &lsoflags); + if (lsoflags & HW_LSO) { + flags |= HW_LSO; + } + Sincerely, Michael Tsymbalyuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel