Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH V4 0/9] netdev-dpdk: support multi-segment mbufs

2017-12-11 Thread Kavanagh, Mark B
iud...@chinac.com >Cc: Stokes, Ian <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Loftus, Ciara ><ciara.lof...@intel.com>; santosh.shu...@caviumnetworks.com >Subject: RE: [ovs-dev][RFC PATCH V4 0/9] netdev-dpdk: support multi-segment >mbufs > >Thank you Mark & Michael Qiu for this work. >

Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH V4 0/9] netdev-dpdk: support multi-segment mbufs

2017-12-08 Thread Chandran, Sugesh
, Sugesh > <sugesh.chand...@intel.com>; Kavanagh, Mark B > <mark.b.kavan...@intel.com> > Subject: [ovs-dev][RFC PATCH V4 0/9] netdev-dpdk: support multi-segment > mbufs > > Overview > > This patchset introduces support for multi-segment mbufs to Ov

[ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH V4 0/9] netdev-dpdk: support multi-segment mbufs

2017-12-08 Thread Mark Kavanagh
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