Re: [dpdk-users] [mlx5 + DPDK 19.11] Flow insertion rate less than 4K per sec

2020-04-19 Thread Wisam Monther
Hey Yan, For FW steering there is HW limitation on number of flows that can be added on it. Which is table 0, and I think it's 65536 But to get Millions of rules use --group=1 which is SW steering. Moreover make sure you have enough memory in the app to have good insertion rate. If you have

Re: [dpdk-users] [mlx5 + DPDK 19.11] Flow insertion rate less than 4K per sec

2020-04-19 Thread Thomas Monjalon
+Cc Wisam 16/04/2020 17:32, Yan Lei: > Hi Thomas, > > > I tried the patch (68057 + 68058) on DPDK 19.11/20.02 + ofed 4.7.3. > > > TL;DR > > > 1. I was only able to generate 3K rules per second. > > 2. The maximum number of distinct rules the NIC can support seems to be 65536. > > > How