Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC 0/2] dpdk: Add support for TSO

2018-08-23 Thread Ilya Maximets
> Enabling TSO offload allows a host stack to delegate the segmentation of > oversized TCP packets to the underlying physical NIC, if supported. In the > case > of a VM this means that the segmentation of the packets is not performed by > the > guest kernel, but by the host NIC itself. In turn,

[ovs-dev] [RFC 0/2] dpdk: Add support for TSO

2018-08-08 Thread Tiago Lam
Enabling TSO offload allows a host stack to delegate the segmentation of oversized TCP packets to the underlying physical NIC, if supported. In the case of a VM this means that the segmentation of the packets is not performed by the guest kernel, but by the host NIC itself. In turn, since the TSO