Type: refactor
This patch refactors the offload flags in vlib_buffer_t.
There are two main reasons behind this refactoring.
First, offload flags are insufficient to represent outer
and inner headers offloads. Second, room for these flags
in first cacheline of vlib_buffer_t is also limited.
This patch introduces a generic offload flag in first
cacheline. And detailed offload flags in 2nd cacheline
of the structure for performance optimization.
Change-Id: Icc363a142fb9208ec7113ab5bbfc8230181f6004
Signed-off-by: Mohsin Kazmi <sykazmi@cisco.com>
See .../extras/pg/checksum_offload.pg for a nontrivial example, which
deliberately sets bogus ip and udp checksums in the generated packets,
then fixes the mess with (software emulated) hardware checksum
offload.
Validated via "pcap dispatch trace on max 1000 buffer-trace pg-input 100".
Packets stuffed into loop1-output have the configured bogus ip and udp
checksums. vnet_calc_checksums_inline(...) fixes the checksums, which
are correct when packets visit loop1-tx.
The packet generator is a dumb robot in this regard. If you ask for a
ridiculous flag combination - example: ip4 and ip6 - your mileage may
vary.
Type: feature
Signed-off-by: Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net>
Change-Id: I6d9e790f373bcd9e445a89113ca8e4c8f9aa9419
