Hey Yan,
For FW steering there is HW limitation on number of flows that can be added on
it.
Which is table 0, and I think it's 65536
But to get Millions of rules use --group=1 which is SW steering.
Moreover make sure you have enough memory in the app to have good insertion
rate.
If you have
+Cc Wisam
16/04/2020 17:32, Yan Lei:
> Hi Thomas,
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> I tried the patch (68057 + 68058) on DPDK 19.11/20.02 + ofed 4.7.3.
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> TL;DR
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> 1. I was only able to generate 3K rules per second.
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> 2. The maximum number of distinct rules the NIC can support seems to be 65536.
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> How