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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2018 08:47:10 -0700
From:      "np@freebsd.org" <np@freebsd.org>
To:        "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>
Subject:   Re: netmap & chelsio
Message-ID:  <20180705154710.GA3353@ox>
In-Reply-To: <94019926-B14F-47AB-8AD9-C01B4A0E199F@netapp.com>
References:  <94019926-B14F-47AB-8AD9-C01B4A0E199F@netapp.com>

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:09:33PM +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when receiving packets via netmap (current GitHub version) on a Chelsio T6
> vcc0 device on -CURRENT, it appears that the Ethernet header starts at an
> offset of two bytes into the netmap slot. So far, I have only used netmap with
> various Intel NICs, where the Ethernet header starts at offset zero.
> 
> Is this a bug? Is this to be expected?

Set hw.cxgbe.fl_pktshift=0 in loader.conf to stop the chip from doing
this.  See cxgbe(4) for details on the knob.  It's a historic
optimization that doesn't seem to matter on modern CPUs, so the driver
default should probably be 0 instead of 2.

Regards,
Navdeep



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