[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] virtio: use zeroed memory for simple TX header

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Apr 6 12:28:37 CEST 2016


> > For simple TX the virtio-net header must be zeroed, but it was using memory
> > that had been initialized with indirect descriptor tables. This resulted in
> > "unsupported gso type" errors from librte_vhost.
> > 
> > We can use the same memory for every descriptor to save cachelines in the
> > vswitch.
> > 
> > Fixes: 6dc5de3a (virtio: use indirect ring elements)
> > Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane at bigswitch.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>

Applied, thanks


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