When this socket option is enabled, relatively large contiguous
buffers are allocated and used to receive data from the remote
connection. When data is received a wrapper M_EXT mbuf is queued to
the socket's receive buffer. This reduces the length of the linked
list of received mbufs and allows consumers to consume receive data in
larger chunks.
To minimize reprogramming the page pods in the adapter, receive
buffers for a given connection are recycled. When a buffer has been
fully consumed by the receiver and freed, the buffer is placed on a
per-connection free buffers list.
The size of the receive buffers defaults to 256k and can be set via
the hw.cxgbe.toe.ddp_rcvbuf_len sysctl. The
hw.cxgbe.toe.ddp_rcvbuf_cache sysctl (defaults to 4) determines the
maximum number of free buffers cached per connection. Note that this
limit does not apply to "in-flight" receive buffers that are
associated with mbufs in the socket's receive buffer.
Co-authored-by: Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications