Re: [lwip-users] Driver question

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On 29.11.2018 10:37, Ivan Warren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing an ethernet driver for my system and I was wondering :
>
> Is there a way to indicate for inbound packets that more than one packet
> was received ?

No, currently not.

> Can I cram more than a single frame in a single pbuf, or do I have to
> split out each packet, put them into pbufs and call netif->input()
> repeatedly ? (or send a pbuf queue to netif->input() ?)

No, that doesn't work. The input packets expect one packet at a time. If 
you're concerned about input speed (allocations, queue size), you might 
be able to use tcpip_callbackmsg_new and tcpip_callbackmsg_trycallback.

> And would that be advantageous ?
>
> I'm asking because when running iperf, it seems that the TCP layer is
> acknowledging *EVERY* datagram it receives (wich contain a payload) -
> which may be superfluous (which *may* be because the TCP stack isn't
> aware there are more coming !)

That, however, would not be changed by using tcpip_callbackmsg_*(). The 
stack currently doesn't check that.

However, iperf should only ACK every 2nd segment unless there is 
something wrong...

Simon