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From: Nageswara Rao <nagpen75@gmail.com>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ASHIQUE CK <ckashiquekvk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DPDK22 issue: Unable to set more than 4 queues in Azure
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:53:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+RWRMEps0Kv6RV9rZnd5CDwtQS3DCMbYrxi+0XXKLfFvkPaYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230625114829.7f49a9ff@hermes.local>

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Yes, we are using vdev_netvsc. Native netvsc PMD we are observing issues in
enabling multiple queues.
Though we have 6 DPDK cores, unable to configure more than 4 queues.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 12:18 AM Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-26 10:23 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
2023-06-26 10:23   ` Nageswara Rao [this message]
2023-06-26 16:25     ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-26 16:29     ` Nageswara Rao

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