On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 08:05:26 +0000 Dattu Gundu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Stephen, > > As Microsoft recommended in the below link to use the failsafe PMD in the > AZURE. > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/setup-dpdk#failsafe-pmd > So, we are using the failsafe/tap/vdev_netvsc in AZURE cloud VM's. > > > Question1: Can we use failsafe on top of NETVSC PMD on AZURE ? No. There is no reason to use failsave if you you use tne native netvsc PMD. Netvsc PMD has internal support for the accelerated SRIOV path. > Question2: Is there any alternatives on Azure cloud ? There are two alternatives vdev_netvsc/failsafe/tap or netvsc PMD > Question3: If no alternatives, what are the required packages to be installed > for QDISC ? > > > > FYI, > > Flower, Mirred, Ingress already set in our config. > > /tmp # cat config | grep FLOW > # CONFIG_NF_FLOW_TABLE is not set > CONFIG_NET_CLS_FLOW=y > CONFIG_NET_CLS_FLOWER=y > CONFIG_NET_FLOW_LIMIT=y > CONFIG_BNXT_FLOWER_OFFLOAD=y > > /tmp # cat config | grep INGRESS > CONFIG_NET_INGRESS=y > CONFIG_NETFILTER_INGRESS=y > CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS=y > > /tmp # cat config | grep MIRRED > CONFIG_NET_ACT_MIRRED=y > > /tmp # cat config | grep MQPRIO > # CONFIG_NET_SCH_MQPRIO is not set > /tmp # > > Thanks, > Raghava Dattu. Plead post full kernel config for your custom kernel, You will need the multi-queue prio qdisc to get the interface to TAP working.
