Hi,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Allain Legacy [mailto:allain.leg...@windriver.com] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 10:38 PM > To: Lu, Wenzhuo > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [PATCH] net/e1000: advertise offload capabilities for the EM PMD > > The hardware offload capabilities are not being advertised for the EM PMD. > Because of this, applications that only enable these features if the device > advertises them will never do so. > > Normally this is not an issue since normal packet processing should work even > if > hardware offload is not available. But, in older versions of Virtual Box the > e1000 > device emulation (Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop 82540EM) assumes that it should > enable VLAN stripping even if the driver does not request it. This means > that any > ingress packets that have a VLAN tag will be stripped. Since the application > did > not request to enable VLAN stripping it is not expecting these packets so they > are not processed as VLAN packets. > > Regardless of the Virtual Box issue, the driver should be advertising > supported > capabilities as is done in other drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Allain Legacy <allain.leg...@windriver.com> Acked-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo...@intel.com>
