From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D150A0A0C; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A20D40692; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:58:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga17.intel.com (mga17.intel.com [192.55.52.151]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905D14068A for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:58:52 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10029"; a="188374728" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,306,1616482800"; d="scan'208";a="188374728" Received: from fmsmga007.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.52]) by fmsmga107.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 Jun 2021 09:58:51 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,306,1616482800"; d="scan'208";a="419240009" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.213.205.12]) ([10.213.205.12]) by fmsmga007-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 Jun 2021 09:58:49 -0700 To: dheemanth , dev@dpdk.org References: <1607642153-24347-1-git-send-email-dheemanthm@vmware.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:58:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1607642153-24347-1-git-send-email-dheemanthm@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/2] linux/kni: Added support for KNI multiple fifos X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 12/10/2020 11:15 PM, dheemanth wrote: > In order to improve performance, the KNI is made to > support multiple fifos, So that multiple threads pinned > to multiple cores can process packets in parallel. > > Signed-off-by: dheemanth Hi Dheemanth, I didn't check the patch yet but as a very high level comment, it is possible to create multiple KNI interface and use multiple cores for each, instead of multiple FIFO in a single interface. KNI example uses this approach. Did you investigate this approach? What is the benefit of multiple FIFO against multiple KNI interface? Thanks, ferruh