On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 10:56 +0000, Matan Azrad wrote: > Hi > > From: Chas Williams > > This will need to be implemented for some of the other RX burst > > methods at > > some point for other modes to see this performance improvement > > (with the > > exception of active-backup). > > Yes, I think it should be done at least to > bond_ethdev_rx_burst_8023ad_fast_queue (should be easy) for now. > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 9:32 AM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > > wrote: > > > > > During bond 802.3ad receive, a burst of packets is fetched from > > > each > > > slave into a local array and appended to per-slave ring buffer. > > > Packets are taken from the head of the ring buffer and returned > > > to the > > > caller. The number of mbufs provided to each slave is sufficient > > > to > > > meet the requirements of the ixgbe vector receive. > > Luca, > > Can you explain these requirements of ixgbe?
I think Chas knows this better than I do. Chas? > Did you check for other vendor PMDs? It may hurt performance there.. Yeah we do support the appliance with more drivers - off the top of my head at the very least e1000, i40e, bnxt, and I'm pretty sure there are users that run with bonded virtio interfaces (yeah I know). No issues were reported as far as I'm aware. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
