netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ena: Add a driver for Amazon Elastic Network Adapters (ENA)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:29:33 -0700
From:	Matt Wilson <msw@...n.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Netanel Belgazal <netanel@...apurnalabs.com>,
	zorik@...apurnalabs.com, saeed@...apurnalabs.com,
	alex@...apurnalabs.com, msw@...zon.com, aliguori@...zon.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ena: Add a driver for Amazon Elastic Network
 Adapters (ENA)

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:19:07PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 12:50 +0200, Netanel Belgazal wrote:
> > +
> > +The ENA driver supports industry standard TCP/IP offload features
> > such
> > +as checksum offload and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO).
> > +
> > +Receive-side scaling (RSS) is supported for multi-core scaling.
> 
> Any chance it also supports VXLAN offload?

While there's room for tunnel offload fields in the TX/RX descriptors
(e.g., see ena_eth_io_tx_desc), there is no support at this time.

--msw