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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] i40e: Enlarge the number of supported
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Hello Helin, Bruce,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com> wrote:

> It enlarges the number of supported queues to hardware allowed
> maximum. There was a software limitation of 64 per physical port
> which is not reasonable.
>

I looked at the commit that introduced this limitation, can't we just get
rid of this ?
The primary process should know the current max queue number and
initialises the array properly before any secondary process tries to set
any callback, or tries to call rx/tx functions.

Did I miss something ?


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David Marchand