On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 at 23:25, Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/27/26 9:29 AM, David Marchand via dev wrote: > > Define a helper capable of segmenting packets from a batch and returning > > them in the input batch. > > This will allow calling GSO in other places of OVS during packet > > processing. > > > > Using this helper, we still need to ensure that the netdev ->send() op > > is called with only NETDEV_MAX_BURST packets. > > I wonder why? There seems to be no actual limit for the Tx side, even > for dpdk ports. There is a litmit technically, but it's UINT16_MAX, > which we should not be able to reach. Or am I missing something?
I need to double check but I think it was related at least to the vhost library that limits to 32 packets. There may be other reasons... I did not take notes. -- David Marchand _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
