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-.. _virtio_user_as_excpetional_path:
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ Copyright(c) 2016 Intel Corporation.
+
+.. _virtio_user_as_exceptional_path:
Virtio_user as Exceptional Path
===============================
* Features
vhost-net is born to be a networking solution, which has lots of networking
- related featuers, like multi queue, tso, multi-seg mbuf, etc.
+ related features, like multi queue, tso, multi-seg mbuf, etc.
* Performance
.. figure:: img/virtio_user_as_exceptional_path.*
- Overview of a DPDK app using virtio-user as excpetional path
+ Overview of a DPDK app using virtio-user as exceptional path
Sample Usage
$(testpmd) -l 2-3 -n 4 \
--vdev=virtio_user0,path=/dev/vhost-net,queue_size=1024 \
- -- -i --txqflags=0x0 --enable-lro \
- --enable-rx-cksum --rxd=1024 --txd=1024
+ -- -i --tx-offloads=0x0000002c --enable-lro \
+ --txd=1024 --rxd=1024
This command runs testpmd with two ports, one physical NIC to communicate
with outside, and one virtio-user to communicate with kernel.
VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6 feature so that large packets from kernel can be
transmitted to DPDK application and further TSOed by physical NIC.
-* ``--enable-rx-cksum``
-
- This is used to negotiate VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM so that packets from
- kernel can be deemed as valid Rx checksumed.
-
* ``queue_size``
256 by default. To avoid shortage of descriptors, we can increase it to 1024.
* ``queues``
- Number of multi-queues. Each qeueue will be served by a kthread. For example:
+ Number of multi-queues. Each queue will be served by a kthread. For example:
.. code-block:: console
$(testpmd) -l 2-3 -n 4 \
--vdev=virtio_user0,path=/dev/vhost-net,queues=2,queue_size=1024 \
- -- -i --txqflags=0x0 --enable-lro \
- --enable-rx-cksum --txq=2 --rxq=2 --rxd=1024 \
- --txd=1024
+ -- -i --tx-offloads=0x0000002c --enable-lro \
+ --txq=2 --rxq=2 --txd=1024 --rxd=1024
+
+#. Enable Rx checksum offloads in testpmd:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ (testpmd) port stop 0
+ (testpmd) port config 0 rx_offload tcp_cksum on
+ (testpmd) port config 0 rx_offload udp_cksum on
+ (testpmd) port start 0
#. Start testpmd: