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Add support for linking multi-segment buffers together to handle Jumbo packets. The vmxnet3 API supports having header and body buffer types. What this patch does is fill the primary ring completely with header buffers and the secondary ring with body buffers. This allows for non-jumbo frames to only use one mbuf (from primary ring); and jumbo frames will have first mbuf from primary ring and following mbufs from other ring. This could be optimized in future if the DPDK had API to supply different sized mbufs (two pools) into driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com> Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com> Release note addition: Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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