[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/vhost: support TSO disabling

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 6/20/19 8:08 AM, Matan Azrad wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Tiwei, Maxim
> From: Tiwei Bie
>> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 5:26 AM
>> To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Noa Ezra <noae at mellanox.com>; Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>;
>> dev at dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/vhost: support TSO disabling
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:53:05AM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>> On 6/19/19 8:13 AM, Noa Ezra wrote:
>>>> TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled by default on vhost.
>>>> Add the ability to disable TSO on vhost.
>>>> The user should also disable the feature on the virtual machine's xml.
>>>
>>> For TSO, I think it make sense to have the option to disable it, as it
>>> requires the application to support it.
>>>
>>> I even wonder whether it should not be disabled by default.
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Agree, it looks better to disable it by default.
> 
> The issue to disable it by default is that it will break the current applications/users which use TSO by default.
> 
> Maybe we need kind of notice to the user to break it in the next version.
> 
> What do you think?


I think that's a good idea, let's add a notice in the release note for
v19.08, and disable it by default in 19.11.

Thanks,
Maxime

>> Thanks,
>> Tiwei