Hi Pablo, > -----Original Message----- > From: De Lara Guarch, Pablo [mailto:pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com] > > Hi all, > > To avoid rx_nombuf packet drops, I'm trying to configure a DPDK port > > to use more than 1 RX queue... so I'm trying (on a 10Gbps card) to use 4 RX > queues. > > The call to rte_eth_dev_configure() and the 4 calls to > > rte_eth_rx_queue_setup() succeed but then via the > > rte_eth_rx_queue_count() API I see that only the first RX queue is > > used. The remaining 3 seems unused... am I missing something? > > How are you configuring the port? Are you using RSS? I guess that's what you > are looking for, so make sure that you are using the right > mq_mode(ETH_MQ_RX_RSS).
No, I was not using RSS and this was indeed the problem. I enabled it as is done in e.g., l3fwd example, i.e., using the ETH_RSS_IP for the hash functions to apply. I now see that all 4 RX queues are correctly used. Thanks!! Francesco
