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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>,
	 Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	 Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	 Dilshod Urazov <Dilshod.Urazov@oktetlabs.ru>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] net/virtio: reject unsupported Rx multi queue modes
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:23:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8wDBu8WHF6wW5RvA5=oCc=N89NYhm1A6FXTFgz4SViw-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79dd7de6-2f0d-dd66-86a7-53a04fcc2d30@solarflare.com>

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:14 AM Andrew Rybchenko
<arybchenko@solarflare.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/19 10:42 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 09/10/2019 13:24, Andrew Rybchenko:
> >> On 10/9/19 1:41 PM, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> >>> My understanding is that, setting mq_mode to ETH_MQ_RX_NONE means
> >>> no method is enforced on how to route packets to MQs.
> >> I'm not sure. It is definitely a place to be improved in
> >> ethdev documentation. Thomas, Ferruh, what do you think?
> >> Is it really a definition of ETH_MQ_RX_NONE?
> > I think it means everything go to queue 0.
>
> I understand it this way as well.
>
> > The comment says no DCB, RSS or VMDQ.
> > It looks like the "NONE" value has been abused for some custom steering.
> > We have two options:
> >       - document NONE as a possible case of custom steering
> >       - add a new CUSTOM value
>
> I'd prefer to say that ETH_MQ_RX_RSS with rss_hf equal to 0 means
> unspecified/unknown steering. If application just want to spread
> traffic across many Rx queues, it is natural choice to say that
> it want RSS, but do not care about spreading algorithm etc.
> It allows driver use recommended defaults if rss_hf is controllable,
> or just spread in virtio case.

RSS is about maintaining affinity of a "flow" (as in packets sharing
the same l3/l4 tuples) to a specific queue.
Here, we can have packets from a same flow on any queue depending on
what happened on the vhost side.

I prefer we describe this behavior as something else than RSS.


-- 
David Marchand

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-01 15:44 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] net/virtio: reject deferred start Rx queue setup Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-01 15:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] net/virtio: reject deferred start Tx " Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-08  5:35   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-01 15:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] net/virtio: reject unsupported Rx multi queue modes Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-08  5:46   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-09  8:04     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-09  8:43       ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-09  9:00         ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-09 10:41           ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-09 11:24             ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-10  7:42               ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-10-10  8:13                 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-10  8:23                   ` David Marchand [this message]
2019-10-10  8:27                     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-10  9:10                       ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-01 16:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] net/virtio: reject deferred start Rx queue setup Kevin Traynor
2019-10-01 16:39   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-09 12:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] " Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-09 12:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] net/virtio: reject deferred start Tx " Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-24  9:44     ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-09 12:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] net/virtio: reject unsupported Rx multi queue modes Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-24  9:44     ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-09 12:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] net/virtio: reject unsupported Tx " Andrew Rybchenko
2019-10-24  9:44     ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-24  9:44   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] net/virtio: reject deferred start Rx queue setup Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-24 10:19     ` Maxime Coquelin

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