On 3/13/2017 3:15 AM, Lu, Wenzhuo wrote: > 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>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.