[dpdk-dev] I couldn't manage to configure RSS

[Patrick Mahan]

With test-pmd, you need to make sure you allow enough cores to handle each RSS queue.  And as the previous poster mentioned, you must generate traffic to a wide range of destination addresses.

Patrick

Coming to you from deep inside Fortress Mahan

On Aug 17, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Hamed khanmirza <hamedkh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I successfully managed to run l2fw example and also l3fw with only one queue. But I couldn't config the RSS in l3fw and also test-pmd application. 
> I simply create two queues per port on two lcores and set the RSS_ETH_IPV4 (I laso tried other options). I generate a traffic with different destination addresses but all the traffic goes to the first queue and the other queue in both applications is empty !
> I also fully read both application codes, api_reference, programmers guide, but unfortunately couldn't find anyway to activate this feature. Have you any advice for me? Is there any trick or other configuration I should enable?
> My Ethernet card is X540, and I'm using Intel E5-2650 CPU on ubuntu LTS 12.0.4.
> 
> Regards
> -Hamed