Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-27 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:16 PM, chintu hetam wrote: > As far as i know, flow director is Intel terminology it addresses both RSS > and RFS. I think FreeBSD implementation is RFS. > > Luigi, you touched upon SW de-multiplexer, i would like to know why it's > necessary. the sw demux is only necess

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-27 Thread chintu hetam
As far as i know, flow director is Intel terminology it addresses both RSS and RFS. I think FreeBSD implementation is RFS. Luigi, you touched upon SW de-multiplexer, i would like to know why it's necessary. let say i have 82599 ixgbe driver (RSS enabled)configured with 5 tuple hash. My application

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-27 Thread hiren panchasara
I think you meant "reply-all" :-) On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:53 AM, chintu hetam wrote: > As far as i know, flow director is Intel terminology it addresses both RSS > and RFS. I think FreeBSD implementation is RFS. > > Luigi, you touched upon SW de-multiplexer, i would like to know why it's > nec

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-26 Thread hiren panchasara
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:27 PM, chintu hetam wrote: > Hiren, > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt must read > to understand nuances of each of this features. None of this techniques are > used for mostly none other than performance reasons. > Thanks for the link.

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-26 Thread chintu hetam
Hiren, https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt must read to understand nuances of each of this features. None of this techniques are used for mostly none other than performance reasons. Michio, personally i am interested to know performance results in netmap mode with RFS

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-26 Thread hiren panchasara
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Michio Honda wrote: > Hi, > > The handiest way to try flexible flow distribution is using Flow Director. > I've confirmed that the patch posted to this list two years ago works with > netmap/ixgbe. > > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Adding-Flow-Director-sys

RE: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-26 Thread Michio Honda
, 25 Sep 2013 02:12:54 -0700 > Subject: Re: netmap: traffic distribution > From: hiren.panchas...@gmail.com > To: ri...@iet.unipi.it > CC: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-25 Thread hiren panchasara
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, hiren panchasara > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, hiren panchasara > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > I am providing line rate

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, hiren panchasara wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, hiren panchasara >> wrote: >> > >> > I am providing line rate traffic (via pkg-gen.c) to my 10gig ix >> > interface. >> > >> > Now on rece

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-25 Thread hiren panchasara
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, hiren panchasara > wrote: > > > > I am providing line rate traffic (via pkg-gen.c) to my 10gig ix > interface. > > > > Now on receiving side, is there a way to sub-divide the traffic into > > multiple workloa

Re: netmap: traffic distribution

2013-09-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, hiren panchasara wrote: > > I am providing line rate traffic (via pkg-gen.c) to my 10gig ix interface. > > Now on receiving side, is there a way to sub-divide the traffic into > multiple workloads using netmap? > > For example, can I get two 5G flows from 10Gbps t