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diff --git a/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst b/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst index d7bc8518..1d99019c 100644 --- a/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst +++ b/docs/configuration/interfaces/ethernet.rst @@ -69,28 +69,42 @@ Ethernet options Offloading ---------- -.. cfgcmd:: set interfaces ethernet <interface> offload <gro | gso | sg | - tso | ufo> +.. cfgcmd:: set interfaces ethernet <interface> offload <gro | gso | sg | tso | + ufo | rps> Enable different types of hardware offloading on the given NIC. - Generic segmentation offload is a pure software offload that is meant to deal - with cases where device drivers cannot perform the offloads described above. - What occurs in GSO is that a given skbuff will have its data broken out over - multiple skbuffs that have been resized to match the MSS provided via - skb_shinfo()->gso_size. + :abbr:`GSO (Generic Segmentation Offload)` is a pure software offload that is + meant to deal with cases where device drivers cannot perform the offloads + described above. What occurs in GSO is that a given skbuff will have its data + broken out over multiple skbuffs that have been resized to match the MSS + provided via skb_shinfo()->gso_size. Before enabling any hardware segmentation offload a corresponding software offload is required in GSO. Otherwise it becomes possible for a frame to be re-routed between devices and end up being unable to be transmitted. - Generic receive offload is the complement to GSO. Ideally any frame assembled - by GRO should be segmented to create an identical sequence of frames using - GSO, and any sequence of frames segmented by GSO should be able to be - reassembled back to the original by GRO. The only exception to this is IPv4 - ID in the case that the DF bit is set for a given IP header. If the value of - the IPv4 ID is not sequentially incrementing it will be altered so that it is - when a frame assembled via GRO is segmented via GSO. + :abbr:`GRO (Generic receive offload)` is the complement to GSO. Ideally any + frame assembled by GRO should be segmented to create an identical sequence of + frames using GSO, and any sequence of frames segmented by GSO should be able + to be reassembled back to the original by GRO. The only exception to this is + IPv4 ID in the case that the DF bit is set for a given IP header. If the + value of the IPv4 ID is not sequentially incrementing it will be altered so + that it is when a frame assembled via GRO is segmented via GSO. + + :abbr:`RPS (Receive Packet Steering)` is logically a software implementation + of :abbr:`RSS (Receive Side Scaling)`. Being in software, it is necessarily + called later in the datapath. Whereas RSS selects the queue and hence CPU that + will run the hardware interrupt handler, RPS selects the CPU to perform + protocol processing above the interrupt handler. This is accomplished by + placing the packet on the desired CPU's backlog queue and waking up the CPU + for processing. RPS has some advantages over RSS: + + - it can be used with any NIC, + - software filters can easily be added to hash over new protocols, + - it does not increase hardware device interrupt rate (although it does + introduce inter-processor interrupts (IPIs)). + .. cmdinclude:: /_include/interface-xdp.txt :var0: ethernet |