Hi Steve, If RSS isn't giving you the spread you need you might want to try setting up perfect filters. That way you could divide flows based on a criteria that that works for your packet distribution. If you do I would suggest you use the latest driver and ethtool as it has some rather substantial improvement for that feature.
Thanks, -Don Skidmore <[email protected]> >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve O'Brien [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 6:49 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [E1000-devel] Round-robin Flow Director? > >Hello, > > > >I'm working with the ixgbe drivers to an Intel 82599 based NIC. I have a >situation where I would like to use RSS, but want round-robin >distribution >of the receive frames. (Because my mobile network primarily uses only a >few >network elements, filtering sends 95% of the packets to one queue.) I >would >appreciate some guidance. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
