Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/vhost: fix extend MAX_QUEUES to resolve startup failure

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 02:33:32PM +0800, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
> When binding X710 NIC (i40e driver) to DPDK, vhost sample startups
> failure.
> The sample requires that MAX_QUEUES should be defined no less than 320.
> So, the patch redefines MAX_QUEUES 320 to fix the issue.

It just makes the issue disappear. It doesn't really fix the issue.
And I belive we have tried to fix this kind of issues in this way
many times. (just check the git history). As you known, none of them
really worked. You just added one more try, which is very likely
will be broken again when Intel has one more new NIC.

The error comes from:

        if (dev_info.max_rx_queues > MAX_QUEUES) {
                rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
                        "please define MAX_QUEUES no less than %u in %s\n",
                        dev_info.max_rx_queues, __FILE__);
        }

I think such check is overkill and we don't really need that. Could
you just remove such check and do some validations on few difference
nics?

Thanks.

	--yliu