svn commit: r282280 - in head/sys/dev: e1000 ixgbe ixl

[Navdeep Parhar]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 07:31:08PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 04:51:34PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
...
> > 
> > However, if we don't expect the number of queues to exceed a reasonable
> > number of 255 :), we can fit the functionality into existing API.
> > We can keep the queue number in the highest 8 bits of the ift_counter
> > parameter.
> 
> In case of hardware-assist NIC emulation numbers may be rise: x710
> have 1536 queue per port.

I agree that 255 is pretty low.  cxgbe(4) hardware also supports more
queues than this already (it supports 1K rx queues and 64K tx queues).

Regards,
Navdeep