[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: support UDP Fragmentation Offload
Hu, Jiayu
jiayu.hu at intel.com
Tue Nov 21 08:41:00 CET 2017
Hi Stephen,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 3:13 PM
> To: Hu, Jiayu <jiayu.hu at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; yliu at fridaylinux.org; Tan, Jianfeng
> <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: support UDP Fragmentation Offload
>
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:56:52 +0800
> Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > In virtio, UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) includes two parts: host UFO
> > and guest UFO. Guest UFO means the frontend can receive large UDP
> packets,
> > and host UFO means the backend can receive large UDP packets. This patch
> > supports host UFO and guest UFO for vhost-user.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu at intel.com>
>
> This may no longer be a desirable feature to implement.
> UFO was just deprecated and removed from Linux.
> It had no useful benefit.
The main reason of supporting UFO is to make the backend live migration from
vhost-net to vhost-user possible. Host and guest UFO are default features for virtio-net,
and vhost-net supports both. But vhosy-user doesn't support them. If we want to
migrate from vhost-net to vhost-user, this features gap would cause live migration fail.
Thanks,
Jiayu
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