I?m unable to get RSS to work properly with vmxnet3-pmd. The first issue is that the number of rxqs must be power of 2. Otherwise, rte_eth_dev_start() fails due to inability to activate vmxnet3 NIC. This is not too big of a deal, but physical NICs don?t have this requirement.
The second issue is that RSS is just not working at all for me. The rxmode is set to ETH_MQ_RX_RSS and rss_hf = ETH_RSS_IPV4_TCP | ETH_RSS_IPV4_UDP | ETH_RSS_IPV4 | ETH_RSS_IPV6. The same configuration works for a real NIC. When I checked mb->pkt.hash, the value is all zeroed out. Even if I disabled RSS, I found the performance of vmxnet3-pmd to be quite poor, peaking out at 600k pps with 64 byte packet, while libpcap can do 650k pps. Lastly, there is a stability issue. On a number of occasions, vmxnet3-pmd stops receiving packets after some random time and several million packets. I?m not sure if anyone else is having as much issue as I?m, I will give vmxnet3-usermap a try. Finally, does either vmxnet3-usermap or vmxnet3-pmd work well for non-Intel-based underlying physical NIC? Thanks. Dan
