The series starts with some cleanup work in the code the final patch (the actual adding of the LRO support) is going to touch/use/change. There are still quite a few issues in the ixgbe PMD code left but they have to be a matter of a different series and I've left a few "TODO" remarks in the code.
The LRO ("RSC" in Intel's context) PMD completion handling code follows the same design as the corresponding Linux and FreeBSD implementation: pass the aggregation's cluster HEAD buffer to the NEXTP entry of the software ring till EOP is met. HW configuration follows the corresponding specs: this feature is supported only by x540 and 82599 PF devices. The feature has been tested with seastar TCP stack with the following configuration on Tx side: - MTU: 400B - 100 concurrent TCP connections. The results were: - Without LRO: total throughput: 0.12Gbps, coefficient of variance: 1.41% - With LRO: total throughput: 8.21Gbps, coefficient of variance: 0.59% This is an almost factor 80 improvement. New in v5: - Split the series into "bug fixes" and "all the rest" so that the former could be integrated into a 2.0 release. - Put the RTE_ETHDEV_HAS_LRO_SUPPORT definition at the beginning of rte_ethdev.h. - Removed the "TODO: Remove me" comment near RTE_ETHDEV_HAS_LRO_SUPPORT. New in v4: - Remove CONFIG_RTE_ETHDEV_LRO_SUPPORT from config/common_linuxapp. - Define RTE_ETHDEV_HAS_LRO_SUPPORT in rte_ethdev.h. - As a result of "ixgbe: check rxd number to avoid mbuf leak" (352078e8e) Vector Rx had to get the same treatment as Rx Bulk Alloc (see PATCH4 for more details). New in v3: - ixgbe_rx_alloc_bufs(): Always reset refcnt of the buffers to 1. Otherwise rte_pktmbuf_free() won't free them. New in v2: - Removed rte_eth_dev_data.lro_bulk_alloc and added ixgbe_hw.rx_bulk_alloc_allowed instead. - Unified the rx_pkt_bulk callback setting (a separate new patch). - Fixed a few styling and spelling issues. Vlad Zolotarov (3): ixgbe: Cleanups ixgbe: Code refactoring ixgbe: Add LRO support lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 9 +- lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 6 + lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h | 5 + lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c | 703 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.h | 6 + 5 files changed, 662 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-) -- 2.1.0