On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 08:35:20PM -0800, Saurabh Mishra wrote: > Hi, > > > Is it possible for two or more processes to share the same mbuf_pool in > SR-IOV with single rx/tx queue? > > The sharing of the mbuf pool is not an issue, but sharing of rx/tx queues is. The ethdev queues are not multi-thread safe, so to share a queue between processes or threads, you need to put in locks or other access control mechanisms. [This also implies a performance hit due to the locking]
Regards, /Bruce
