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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nageswara Rao <nagpen75@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ASHIQUE CK <ckashiquekvk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DPDK22 issue: Unable to set more than 4 queues in Azure
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:48:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230625114829.7f49a9ff@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+RWRMFnPa_Ni-OzMCD0W5F1_0ETtLW=To7eCC+ZT6Rc-PPORw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:06:10 +0530
Nageswara Rao <nagpen75@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We are observing the following issue with DPDK22.11. We didn’t find any
> upstream patches for this issue on the DPDK github. Is there any known
> issue, please let us know.
> 
> 
> 
> *Issue:*
> 
> On Azure platform, we are unable to configure more than 4 queues. When we
> try to configure more than 4 queues its failing with “EAL: Cannot send more
> than 8 FDs” error.
> 
> Here I am pasting the working and failing testpmd logs.
> 
> Please note that this issue is not observed in DPDK 21.11.
> 

You should be using the native netvsc PMD, not the vdev_netvsc,failsafe,tap kludge.

I don't work on Azure any more but I suspect the issue is that the default
in the kernel for TAP is for the number of queues == number of cores.

You aren't going to see any real benefit from having more queues than
the number of DPDK cores.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-25 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-22 16:36 Nageswara Rao
2023-06-25 18:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-06-26 10:23   ` Nageswara Rao
2023-06-26 16:25     ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-26 16:29     ` Nageswara Rao

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