Hello,
The role of RSC is to reassemble input TCP segments, so it is possible
> that the number of TCP packets sent to the DPDK is lower but some
> packets may contain more data. Can you confirm that?
>
>
I don't think out test case can answer your question, because all generated
TCP ACK packets were as small as possible (no tcp payload at all). Source
IPs and ports were picked at random for each packet, so most of (adjacent)
packets belong to different TCP sessions.
> In my opinion, this mechanism should be disabled by default because it
> could break PMTU discovery on a router. However it could be useful for
> somebody doing TCP termination only.
>
>
I was thinking about new rte_eth_rxmode structure option:
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ struct rte_eth_rxmode {
hw_vlan_strip : 1, /**< VLAN strip enable. */
hw_vlan_extend : 1, /**< Extended VLAN enable. */
jumbo_frame : 1, /**< Jumbo Frame Receipt enable. */
+ disable_rsc : 1, /**< Disable RSC (receive side
convalescing). */
hw_strip_crc : 1; /**< Enable CRC stripping by
hardware. */
};
Regards,
Alexander
