[dpdk-dev] Increasing number of txd and rxd from 256 to 1024 for virtio-net-pmd-1.1

2013-11-27 Thread James Yu
Can you share your virtio driver with me ? Do you mean to create multiple queues, each has 256 txd/rxd ? The packets could be stored into the freeslots in those queues. But how can the virtio pmd codes feed the slots down to the hardware to deliver them ? The other question is that I was using vh

[dpdk-dev] Increasing number of txd and rxd from 256 to 1024 for virtio-net-pmd-1.1

2013-11-26 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:15:02 -0800 James Yu wrote: > Running one directional traffic from Spirent traffic generator to l2fwd > running inside a guest OS on a RHEL 6.2 KVM host, I encountered performance > issue and need to increase the number of rxd and txd from 256 to 1024. > There was not enoug

[dpdk-dev] Increasing number of txd and rxd from 256 to 1024 for virtio-net-pmd-1.1

2013-11-26 Thread James Yu
Running one directional traffic from Spirent traffic generator to l2fwd running inside a guest OS on a RHEL 6.2 KVM host, I encountered performance issue and need to increase the number of rxd and txd from 256 to 1024. There was not enough freeslots for packets to be transmitted in this routine