On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:23:09PM +0200, Alex Markuze wrote: > Hi, > I'm seeing an unwanted behaviour in the receive flow of ixgbevf. While > using Jumbo frames and sending 4k+ bytes , the receive side breaks up the > packets into 2K buffers, and I receive 3 mbuffs per packet. > > Im setting the .max_rx_pkt_len to 4.5K and the mempoll has 5K sized > elements? > > Anything else I'm missing here. The purpose is to have all 4k+ bytes in one > single continuous buffer. >
That should be working, I think. Does it work with the plain ixgbe driver on the host? Is there anything in the output of the driver initialization saying something like "forcing scatter mode"?