Hi Robert
RSS hashing is enabled by default, it does asymmetric per-flow balancing, you 
can change it to symmetric via pfring_open() flags.
You can send arbitrary packets to the queues.

Alfredo

Il giorno 14/set/2013, alle ore 11:23, Robert Graham 
<[email protected]> ha scritto:

> To be clear: I'm using the 'insmod ixgfbe RSS=2,2" in order to setup 2 RSS 
> queues on each of the ports on my dual-port adapter, and I can open the 
> queues with things like "dna0@0" or "dna0@1". It creates two tx queues and 
> two rx queues for me. I just don't understand what filtering is going on. Are 
> they pure round-robin? Or is it automatically doing RSS flows on the inbound 
> packets, but allowing me to transmit arbitrary packets on the output? My 
> scanner is asynchronous, so I don't really care about associating outbound 
> with inbound packets.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Robert Graham <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 4:55 AM
> Subject: [Ntop-misc] setting up RSS queues
> 
> I've gone over the documentation and google, and I still don't understand how 
> to setup multiple queues.
> 
> I see that can use use the network adaper name like "dna0@1" top open queue 
> #1 on "dna0", but how does that queue get created? How do I set the hashing 
> function used for the adapter? Do I create the queues with 'modprobe' or 
> 'ethtool', or is there an API somewhere that I'm missing?
> 
> 
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