Re: [E1000-devel] packet header split configuration

2013-01-23 Thread Skidmore, Donald C
> -Original Message- > From: Gabe Black [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:54 PM > To: Duyck, Alexander H > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] packet header split configuration > > > -Ori

Re: [E1000-devel] packet header split configuration

2013-01-23 Thread Gabe Black
> -Original Message- > From: Alexander Duyck [mailto:[email protected]] > When we had to pull support for Header splitting on 82599 we found that > we were actually able to implement an approach that performed better > than packet split did using single buffer mode. As such we ha

Re: [E1000-devel] packet header split configuration

2013-01-23 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 01/23/2013 10:24 AM, Gabe Black wrote: >> -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 pack

Re: [E1000-devel] packet header split configuration

2013-01-23 Thread Gabe Black
> -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,

Re: [E1000-devel] packet header split configuration

2013-01-23 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 01/22/2013 03:16 PM, Gabe Black wrote: > I have been spending some time in the igb driver code to understand what I > would have to change to make more use of the header-split features of the > cards. > > I noticed that header-split is always set to > E1000_SRRCTL_DESCTYPE_HDR_SPLIT_ALWAYS, w

[E1000-devel] packet header split configuration

2013-01-22 Thread Gabe Black
I have been spending some time in the igb driver code to understand what I would have to change to make more use of the header-split features of the cards. I noticed that header-split is always set to E1000_SRRCTL_DESCTYPE_HDR_SPLIT_ALWAYS, which translates to setting DESCTYPE in the SRRCTL reg