Re: igb/ixgbe RSS/RX queues for non-IP traffic

2011-09-09 Thread Ryan Stone
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > Particularly I'm trying to figure out how can I use all this variety of > filters to get MPLS traffic split to different RX queues. I've got bad news for you on this. From Section 7.1.2.7 of the 82599 datasheet(Flow Director Filter

Re: igb/ixgbe RSS/RX queues for non-IP traffic

2011-09-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:52:17 am Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > Hello list! > > (CC'in Jack Vogel since this is intel drivers/hardware specific question) > > There are some techniques for assigning network traffic to different NIC > RX queues (bound to different CPUs/cores). > The m

igb/ixgbe RSS/RX queues for non-IP traffic

2011-09-07 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
Hello list! (CC'in Jack Vogel since this is intel drivers/hardware specific question) There are some techniques for assigning network traffic to different NIC RX queues (bound to different CPUs/cores). The main problem for all techniques is avoiding any possible packet reordering in single flo