Hi Donald, Thank you very much for your reply.
>> 2) As I understand from the datasheet, the pool is first selected for Rx >> packet >> by MAC address filters. Can it be changed later by 5-tuple or flow director >> filters (by selecting a queue that belongs to another pool), or can those >> only >> change queue number within a pool that is selected by MAC address? > > Flow director would only be for choosing the queues with in a pool. > So in your VF case at most 2 queues. This is why we only support RSS in > the VF driver. Do you know if 5-tuple filters have the same limitation? The 82599 datasheet mentions (in 7.1.2.5) that in virtualized mode the "rx queue" field of each filter defines an absolute queue index, not relative to the pool; but it's still unclear if that means routing to another pool is possible. As I understand from your reply, there isn't any support for 5-tuple filters in ixgbe driver currently, but I noticed that some support was recently added to DPDK and maybe I should try to port it to ixgbe driver. But spending much time on it to finally figure out that 5-tuple filters also can only route packets within a pool would be pretty disappointing :) Thanks again! Best regards, Eugene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
