em/igb multiqueue support

Sami Halabi sodynet1 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 08:10:05 UTC 2011


Hi,
how you can see if a nic has queue or not, and how much in use?
can we configure the amount of queues?

i have 2 nics, 82599Eb - ixgbe (10g) and 82571EB - em driver

Thanks in advance,
Sami

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Rafael Ganascim <rganascim at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that this is an old question....
>
> I think that Intel 82575 (and another models) hardware are capable of
> multiple queues both on the receive and the send side. Is it right?
> Currently the processing of packets is limited to one CPU per NIC.
>
> Can we have multiple taskq processes for one NIC in parallel? Is
> anyone working on this right now, and if not does this sound like
> something
> anyone is interested in doing? (yes, I know the Yandex driver).
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Rafael
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Sami Halabi
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