Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] netdev-dpdk: Disable NIC offloading and multiseg mbufs

2014-06-25 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
Thanks On Jun 25, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Pravin Shelar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: >> On 06/24/14 at 04:05pm, Daniele Di Proietto wrote: >>> We do not use any offloading (now) or multiple segments per packet, so >>> we might as well disable those features while confi

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] netdev-dpdk: Disable NIC offloading and multiseg mbufs

2014-06-25 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 06/24/14 at 04:05pm, Daniele Di Proietto wrote: >> We do not use any offloading (now) or multiple segments per packet, so >> we might as well disable those features while configuring the NIC. >> >> This could give performance improvements. F

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] netdev-dpdk: Disable NIC offloading and multiseg mbufs

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Graf
On 06/24/14 at 04:05pm, Daniele Di Proietto wrote: > We do not use any offloading (now) or multiple segments per packet, so > we might as well disable those features while configuring the NIC. > > This could give performance improvements. For ixgbe, for example, this change > allows the driver to

[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] netdev-dpdk: Disable NIC offloading and multiseg mbufs

2014-06-24 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
We do not use any offloading (now) or multiple segments per packet, so we might as well disable those features while configuring the NIC. This could give performance improvements. For ixgbe, for example, this change allows the driver to use a simpler tx routine, resulting in throuput improvements