Hi,

I'm trying to figure out what is supported in the current ixgbe driver 
relative to the actual hardware capabilities.

I have a system with 32 cpus.  On 31 of those cpus I have an app running 
(affined to that cpu).

My ideal goal is to have 32 separate flows, each one hashed on some 
unique field such that I can route the interrupt for each flow to the 
cpu that will process that flow in userspace.  As a fallback, I'd like 
32 flows even if I can't ensure that they're routed to the same cpu that 
will ultimately handle the flow.

 From what I can tell the simple RSS mode only gives 16 queues, but when 
using virtualization I can get up to 64 pools.  Can I use VMDq to get 
the extra pools/queues without actually starting up VMs?  Can I assign 
multiple MAC addresses to the various pools/queues?  How would I do this 
given the current driver?

Thanks,
Chris


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