On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:56:18PM +0000, Assaad, Sami (Sami) wrote: > Hello, > > Is it normal that a 10G NIC interface, supporting the 82599 Ethernet > Controller, configured as PCI Pass-through for a virtual machine using DPDK, > reports 64 bytes per packet; no matter what the packet size? > That would not be expected behaviour, no. AFAIK, the 82599 NIC counters should behave in the same way whether or not it is passed through to a VM or used on a host.
> If so; I'm assuming this is to improve the performance of passing the network > traffic to the VM. Is there a way to configure the NIC to properly present > the proper byte count/packet? > I'm not sure what you mean here. I can't see how the reporting of byte-counts would affect performance. Can you clarify what exactly you are seeing, and why you think there is a performance benefit because of it? /Bruce > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > Sami.
