Hi , Distributor was running as part of Rx core.
Thanks, Reshma > -----Original Message----- > From: Wang, Shawn [mailto:xingbow at amazon.com] > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 10:06 PM > To: Pattan, Reshma; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: RE: Newbie question about distributor library > > 15.5 mpps is amazing. > Does the RX core run the distributor or there is another distributor core? > > Thanks. > ________________________________________ > From: Pattan, Reshma [reshma.pattan at intel.com] > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 12:47 AM > To: Wang, Shawn; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: RE: Newbie question about distributor library > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Wang, Shawn > > Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:00 PM > > To: dev at dpdk.org > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Newbie question about distributor library > > > > Hi: > > > > I am reading document about distributor library which is added in DPDK 1.7. > > The document mentioned the packets are dynamically load balanced > > between a set of worker cores. > > So I am wondering is this the only reason we need distributor library? > > What else could it give us? > > Do we have any performance number on this new library? > > > > Thanks. > > Hi, > > Distributor library only takes care of load distribution based on flow type > i.e. > based on rss ( which is calculated based on 5 tuple of the packet) value of > mbuf > to workers. Packets with same rss will be given to same worker. Hence > different > flows goes to different workers. > > 15.5 mpps was the performance we achieved with 8 worker cores, 1 Rx core > and 1 TX core using sample application. > > Thanks, > Reshma >
