On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:33:14 -0500 Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:54:11PM +0000, Zoltan Kiss wrote: > > Can you call rte_eth_tx_burst() and rte_eth_tx_burst() on the same port at > > the same time from different threads? > > In general, yes you can. I did this before in an L4-L7 performance tester, so > cores could concentrate on RX or TX to keep the speeds high. > > > Have anyone seen a device where it wasn't true? > > Not specifically. But I didn't go looking for one either. > > Matthew. Same port is OK, as long as each thread uses different queues. The device queues are not thread safe; ie two threads can't be pulling/pushing to the same queue.
