Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v16 00/14] Support multi-segment mbufs

2019-09-27 Thread Flavio Leitner
> -Original Message- > From: Flavio Leitner [mailto:f...@sysclose.org] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 4:06 PM > To: Obrembski, MichalX > Cc: d...@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v16 00/14] Support multi-segment mbufs > > > > Hi Michal, > >

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v16 00/14] Support multi-segment mbufs

2019-09-27 Thread Obrembski, MichalX
lose.org] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 4:06 PM To: Obrembski, MichalX Cc: d...@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v16 00/14] Support multi-segment mbufs Hi Michal, First of all thank you for continuing with the TSO work. I spent a bit of time reviewing the patchset and my imp

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v16 00/14] Support multi-segment mbufs

2019-09-23 Thread Flavio Leitner
Hi Michal, First of all thank you for continuing with the TSO work. I spent a bit of time reviewing the patchset and my impression is that the multi-segment support is quite expensive. Even when TSO is off, we still have a non trivial CPU cost which we can't optimize further. Also an additiona

[ovs-dev] [PATCH v16 00/14] Support multi-segment mbufs

2019-09-11 Thread Michal Obrembski
Overview This patchset introduces support for multi-segment mbufs to OvS-DPDK. Multi-segment mbufs are typically used when the size of an mbuf is insufficient to contain the entirety of a packet's data. Instead, the data is split across numerous mbufs, each carrying a portion, or 'segment