Does your traffic have multiple 5 tuple flows to distribute it across multiple Rx queues?

 

From: Adel Belkhiri <adel.belkhiri@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:29 PM
To: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Problem configuring vhost-user NICs with multi queues (RSS) support

 

Hi all,

 

I have a problem with the configuration of the sample application l3fdw for switching traffic between two vhost-user NICs, each with 4 queues. The traffic was generated using TREX, running inside a VM. 

 

When I traced my experiment, I noticed that the traffic was only received in queue "0", while the other RX queues were empty. When I run the application, a msg is printed "Port 1 modified RSS hash function based on hardware support,requested:0xa38c configured:0". 

 

It seems that while the vhost-user NIC implementation supports multiple queues, it does not support distributing the traffic between the RX queues. 

 

I wonder if there is a way to make it work?

 

Thank you,

 

PS:  

- DPDK version: 19.08

- Qemu version: 4.2.1

 

Adele