Igor the number of RSS queues must be specified at insmod time, please take a look at load_driver.sh
Alfredo > On 04 Dec 2014, at 13:18, Igor Romanovich <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your response Alfredo. I am planning to use PF_RING ZC. I > know how to load the network driver with RSS enabled, but I'm not sure > on how to create a new RSS queue. > Is it listed here? http://www.ntop.org/pfring_api/pfring__zc_8h.html > Which function is it? > > On 12/04/2014 02:55 PM, Igor Romanovich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> PF_RING is great software, but I'm a little puzzled on how to use it. >> Suppose an application which has 6-8 CPU-intensive packet producer >> threads. Now we want to write the packets produced by these threads to >> some multiple 10G network interfaces... >> >> What is the ideal architecture using PF_RING for high-throughput >> transmission? >> >> These are some options: >> >> 1- There is a consumer thread for each interface that reads the packets >> from a queue, and writes packets to the interface. Producer threads >> write packets to the queues of the consumer threads. >> >> 2- Each producer writes it packets to some ring of each network >> interface (without any consumer thread). I know Netmap supports that. >> PF_RING has a similar concept of rings, but I'm not sure that it really >> utilizes that network device rings. >> >> 3- Using a pf_ring cluster and multiple fan-in queues, and leaving the >> fan-out of the packets to pf_ring. This option is not ideal for me as >> pf_ring apparently doesn't support per flow fan-out. >> >> What architecture do you guys recommend? >> Please note the following in your answer: >> - What's the architecture? >> - Which of PF_RING ZC or PF_RING DNA you are recommending >> - Are you using non-blocking I/O or not? >> >> Thanks for your support. >> >> Best Regards >> > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc _______________________________________________ Ntop-misc mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
