Intel RSS is asymmetric by default, where did you read it's symmetric?
With TNAPI you should set the rss rehash (see pfring_enable_rss_rehash()).
Instead with DNA we remap RSS to make it symmetric (default).

Best Regards
Alfredo

On Apr 9, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Александр Спиридонов <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> My students and I use TNAPI ixgbe driver with kernel 2.6.37 for multithread 
> traffic capture.
> The capture utility is based on libpcap. We also use PF_RING.
> 
> Our research goal is to recreate TCP/IP sessions.
> But the packets belonging to the same flow (5-tuple) go to the different 
> virtual devices.
> For example: all the packets from IP1:port1 to IP2:port2 go to eth0@0 device 
> and
> the packets from IP2:port2 to IP1:port1 go to eth0@1 device.
> 
> But Intel docs say that all the packets belonging to the
> same flow must go to the same queue.
> 
> Pre-configuration on the server:
>    modprobe ixgbe MQ=1,1 RSS=8,8 FdirMode=0,0
>    ifconfig eth0 promisc up
>    ethtool --offload eth0 rx off tx off
>    ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
> 
> Could you help us to solve the problem?
> 
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