2014-12-03 16:56, Bruce Richardson: > The symmetric_mp example app is set up to allow two processes to > share a NIC port, with each pulling packets from one queue. In order > to have the app continue working when one of the process dies, the > drop_en bit should be set in the NIC configuration. Without this bit > set, the NIC will stall once any queue fills. With the bit set, once > a queue fills, all subsequent packets for that queue are discarded > allowing other queues to continue operating as normal. > > This setting was missed when converting to use standardised defaults > in commit 81f7ecd9.
I don't see rx_drop_en in commit 81f7ecd9. Why do you say it was missed? -- Thomas
