Hello gyus, On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 10:41 AM Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybche...@oktetlabs.ru> wrote: > > From: Igor Romanov <igor.roma...@oktetlabs.ru> > > For now, a rule may have only one dedicated counter, shared counters > are not supported. > > HW delivers (or "streams") counter readings using special packets. > The driver creates a dedicated Rx queue to receive such packets > and requests that HW start "streaming" the readings to it. > > The counter queue is polled periodically, and the first available > service core is used for that. Hence, the user has to specify at least > one service core for counters to work. Such a core is shared by all > MAE-capable devices managed by sfc driver.
If no service lcore is available, did you consider falling back and using a control thread per mae device? -- David Marchand
