On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 05:06:14PM +0000, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > I think this is a problem that both implementations suffer of: Namely, > when we give a packet to the userspace, we strip off the NBL info > array from it. In other words, when the packet gets back from the > userspace and must be outputted to ports, all NBL info that it had > before is cleared out. > > We can handle manually NBL info such as checksum offload or LSO. But > normally, all other NBL info in the array are important, and we cannot > simply strip them away.
On Linux, the "sk_buff" kernel data structure used for packets has tons of extra info that gets stripped when the packet goes to userspace. It doesn't cause a problem. What is different the Windows NBL? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
