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From: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: TCP GSO support above IPv6
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:12:39 +0000
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Hi,
Please see inline

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hu, Jiayu [mailto:jiayu.hu@intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 4:07 AM
> To: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Mark Kavanagh
> <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Olga Shern
> <olgas@mellanox.com>
> Subject: RE: TCP GSO support above IPv6
>=20
> Hi Ophir,
>=20
> Comparing with IPv6, IPv4 is used more widely used and more popular.
> Therefore, when proposed the GSO library, we just planned to support IPv4=
.
>=20
> Do you have any usage scenarios that depend on IPv6?

The same usage scenarios with IPv4 may be applicable to IPv6 since the=20
application requesting TSO at layer 4 may not care about which IP is used a=
t layer 3.

>=20
> Thanks,
> Jiayu
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ophir Munk [mailto:ophirmu@mellanox.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 10:45 PM
> > To: dev@dpdk.org; Hu, Jiayu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>; Mark Kavanagh
> > <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>
> > Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Olga Shern
> > <olgas@mellanox.com>
> > Subject: TCP GSO support above IPv6
> >
> > Hello Jiayu,
> > I wonder why librte_gso only supports TCP GSO above IPv4.
> > Can you please explain why TCP GSO is not supported above IPv6?
> > Are there plans to support it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ophir