> On 04 Dec 2014, at 14:51, Igor Romanovich <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You mean that I don't need to create the RSS queue's and they are > created when the driver is loaded?
You should use: insmod ./ixgbe.ko MQ=1,1,1,1 RSS=8,8,8,8 > Ok, so what name device_name should I use when opening the device? For > example to open queue K on ethX, should I use "zc:ethX@K"? Right? Correct. Alfredo > > On 12/04/2014 05:08 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano wrote: >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ Ntop-misc mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
