[dpdk-dev] Jumbo frame not supported in virtio PMD

[Nirmal Sarkar]

Hello,

I'm trying to send/receive Jumbo frames [ max: 9600] using pktgen-dpdk.
The flags sent to the virtio driver are not supported.
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Ethdev port_id=0 requested Rx offloads 0x800 doesn't match Rx offloads
capabilities 0x21d in rte_eth_dev_configure()
!PANIC!: Cannot configure device: port=0, Num queues 1,1 (22)Invalid
argument
PANIC in pktgen_config_ports():
Cannot configure device: port=0, Num queues 1,1 (22)Invalid argument
6: [./app/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/pktgen(_start+0x29) [0x47d329]]
5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)
[0x7f13cab71830]]
4: [./app/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/pktgen(main+0x700) [0x473c70]]
3: [./app/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/pktgen(pktgen_config_ports+0x2160)
[0x4aeaf0]]
2: [./app/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/pktgen(__rte_panic+0xbb) [0x46373c]]
1: [./app/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/pktgen(rte_dump_stack+0x2b) [0x598b2b]]
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It will be really helpful if Jumbo frame support can be added to the virtio
PMD.

Regards,
N. Sarkar