From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Rob Zimmerman <rob@thezims.net>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] RSS RETA size of 0 on vmxnet3?
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:03:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127140308.3855cbd2@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG0K5qttp+YZLxkVVo4JqDLb-=FnWHUk77kW4MkTbnDr0mCHPg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:53:22 -0500
Rob Zimmerman <rob@thezims.net> wrote:
> Happy Friday, everyone!
>
> Testing within VMWARE and my device query is showing the following:
>
> RSS Offload
> - reta size: 0
> - IPv4: yes
> - TCP: yes
> - UDP: no
> - SCTP: no
> - IPv6: yes
> ....
>
> How exactly does RSS work with a table size of zero? Unless I'm completely
> misunderstanding how to use RSS, I thought the redirection table was
> instrumental to that process...
>
> FWIW, I'm running the same code on a bare-metal box with Intel I350's
> (igb_pmd) and it's showing a RETA size of 128, so I don't think it's my
> code showing a junk value.
>
> Thanks!
> Rob
If you are querying a KNI interface (ie through Linux), it just means
the KNI interface doesn't do the ethtool support that value.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-27 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-27 19:53 Rob Zimmerman
2017-01-27 22:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-01-27 23:21 ` Rob Zimmerman
2017-01-28 0:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
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