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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst index 9959f0d2..0cfc1198 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Limitations #. Currently, the GSO library supports the following IPv4 packet types: - TCP + - UDP - VxLAN - GRE @@ -146,6 +147,15 @@ TCP/IPv4 GSO TCP/IPv4 GSO supports segmentation of suitably large TCP/IPv4 packets, which may also contain an optional VLAN tag. +UDP/IPv4 GSO +~~~~~~~~~~~~ +UDP/IPv4 GSO supports segmentation of suitably large UDP/IPv4 packets, which +may also contain an optional VLAN tag. UDP GSO is the same as IP fragmentation. +Specifically, UDP GSO treats the UDP header as a part of the payload and +does not modify it during segmentation. Therefore, after UDP GSO, only the +first output packet has the original UDP header, and others just have l2 +and l3 headers. + VxLAN GSO ~~~~~~~~~ VxLAN packets GSO supports segmentation of suitably large VxLAN packets, |