Multiqueue status

[Barney Cordoba]

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Navdeep Parhar <nparhar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Multiqueue status
> To: "Barney Cordoba" <barney_cordoba at yahoo.com>
> Cc: current at freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 3:30 PM
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 04:37:45AM -0800, Barney Cordoba
> wrote:
> > 
> > I see some mention of INET_MULTIQUEUE and use of a new
> flowid in the mbuf
> > packet header, but don't see anywhere that the
> flowid is set. Is this a 
> > future feature, or is this currently implemented?
> 
> There is at least one driver, cxgb(4), that makes use of
> flowid.  You
> can browse through the files in sys/dev/cxgb/ to see how
> it's used.
> 
> Regards,
> Navdeep

Yes I noticed that. I'm working on igb/ixgbe for a commercial 
application for 7.x, and I'd like to implement it in a way that is
somewhat compatible with 8. I'm just playing with it at this point
to see the performance trade offs.

Barney