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doc: Add AF_PACKET limitation on userspace tso.
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For enabling TSO on devices using AF_PACKET, minimum supported
kernel version is 4.19 due to a virtio GSO fix
9d2f67e43b73 ("net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso")

Reported-by: Yi Yang <yangyi01@inspur.com>
Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-March/368281.html
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: 0-day Robot <robot@bytheb.org>
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Expand Up @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ in Open vSwitch. Currently, if the NIC supports that, then the feature is
enabled, otherwise TSO can still be enabled but SCTP packets sent to the NIC
will be dropped.

For enabling TSO on devices using AF_PACKET, minimum supported kernel version
is 4.19. This is due to a virtio GSO fix:
9d2f67e43b73 ("net/packet: fix packet drop as of virtio gso")

There is no software implementation of TSO, so all ports attached to the
datapath must support TSO or packets using that feature will be dropped
on ports without TSO support. That also means guests using vhost-user
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