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dpdk: add support for segmented mbufs

Added by Lukas Sismis about 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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Suricata currently cannot support segmented (chained) mbufs. This is not a problem when Suricata runs as a primary application.
However, this issue may arise, when Suricata runs as a secondary process and receives packets from an application (running as a primary process). In this case, Suricata cannot affect how the received mbufs are structured and therefore should be able to handle chained mbufs.

Running Suricata as a secondary process does not imply segmented mbufs. These can be totally avoided if the primary application is configured correctly (mbuf size large enough to contain packets as large as MTU + extra headroom space).

Actions #1

Updated by Lukas Sismis about 1 year ago

  • Subject changed from dpdk: add support for chained mbufs to dpdk: add support for segmented mbufs
Actions #2

Updated by Lukas Sismis about 1 year ago

  • Description updated (diff)
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