On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Rama Puranam wrote:
> Hi, > > I am trying to enable 128 queues per Niantic port. I have four such ports. do you need 128 tx queues or rx queues or both? > My need to is to have the following configuration. > > FCoE -> Disabled. > > DCA -> Disabled > > FdirMode -> Disabled if you do this you can't use more than 16 rx queues (rss) - in non-pool mode, see below > RSS -> Disabled if you do this then you can't use more than 1 rx queue because there will be nothing to steer the packets to the rx queues - in non-pool mode, see below > VMDq -> Enabled so you're trying to set up 16 VMQs with 8 queue pairs each? or 8 VMQs (pairs) with 16 queues each? > DCB -> Enabled. wait, what are you trying to do here? for DCB you get 8 pools of queues (one for each priority) with up to 16 queues in each one. not sure about this, but I thought DCB and VMDq were mutually exclusive. we have code in the works to fix co-existence of DCB and RSS, or SR-IOV and RSS, but it isn't released yet. 82599 once in pool mode splits everything up into 8 pieces, Basically you're way out past the supported feature set of our drivers. > Tried to various combinations using the ixgbe driver code, but could not > enable more than 64 queues per port. hardware only supports 64 interrupts, but can support 128/128 tx/rx (4 queues per interrupt) please describe what you're trying to do, but given the above, I'm pretty sure you're beyond our driver's current support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks & Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ _______________________________________________ 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
