From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples: fix symmetric_mp, set NIC rx_drop_en bit
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:37:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1770523.OPzYA99vBi@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417625819-3024-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2014-12-03 16:56, Bruce Richardson:
> The symmetric_mp example app is set up to allow two processes to
> share a NIC port, with each pulling packets from one queue. In order
> to have the app continue working when one of the process dies, the
> drop_en bit should be set in the NIC configuration. Without this bit
> set, the NIC will stall once any queue fills. With the bit set, once
> a queue fills, all subsequent packets for that queue are discarded
> allowing other queues to continue operating as normal.
>
> This setting was missed when converting to use standardised defaults
> in commit 81f7ecd9.
I don't see rx_drop_en in commit 81f7ecd9.
Why do you say it was missed?
--
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 16:56 Bruce Richardson
2014-12-04 13:37 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-12-04 14:03 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-04 15:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-04 16:06 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-05 16:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
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