On 4/16/2018 10:49 PM, John Daley wrote: > From: Hyong Youb Kim <hyon...@cisco.com> > > Recent NIC models support overlay offload. The overlay offload > feature enables the following on the NIC. > - Rx/Tx checksum offloads for both inner and outer packets. > - Rx inner packet type classification. > - TSO. > - Inner RSS. > > TX descriptors do not require any changes, except the header length > for TSO. The NIC parses outer/inner packets and performs offloads on > them as necessary. The header length for tunneled TSO includes both > inner and outer headers. > > The NIC actually parses and performs the above for NVGRE as well. DPDK > currently has no offload flags for NVGRE, and the hardware has no > controls to individually enable tunnel types either. So do nothing for > now. > > The driver enables overlay offload by default. Add a devargs > 'disable-overlay=<0|1>' to allow the app to disable it. > > Also update the enic guide doc. > > Signed-off-by: Hyong Youb Kim <hyon...@cisco.com> > Reviewed-by: John Daley <johnd...@cisco.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
