[PATCH] examples/l3fwd-graph: remove redundant Tx queue limit

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Nov 19 15:55:12 CET 2025


19/11/2025 14:56, Tummala, Sivaprasad:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> 19/11/2025 13:08, Tummala, Sivaprasad:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > 06/10/2025 10:58, Tummala, Sivaprasad:
> > > From: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com>
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM Sivaprasad Tummala
> > > > > <sivaprasad.tummala at amd.com> wrote:
> > > > > > --- a/examples/l3fwd-graph/main.c
> > > > > > +++ b/examples/l3fwd-graph/main.c
> > > > > > @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
> > > > > >  #define RX_DESC_DEFAULT 1024
> > > > > >  #define TX_DESC_DEFAULT 1024
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -#define MAX_TX_QUEUE_PER_PORT RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS
> > > > > >  #define MAX_RX_QUEUE_PER_PORT 128
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK, in the mainline we actually have:
> > > > #define MAX_TX_QUEUE_PER_PORT RTE_MAX_LCORE
> > > >
> > > In l3fwd-graph app, this change is not available and instead we have
> > >> #define MAX_TX_QUEUE_PER_PORT RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS
> > >>
> > >> > since:
> > >> > commit 88256ed85338c572d73006e4c4530a52d3b477ff
> > >> > Author: Harman Kalra <hkalra at marvell.com>
> > >> > Date:   Tue Jan 12 23:54:46 2021 +0530
> > >> >
> > >> >     examples/l3fwd: remove limitation on Tx queue count
> > >> >
> > >> > What I am missing here?
> >> >> This patch marked here was fixing l3fwd app and not l3fwd-graph
> >>
> >> > Why not applying the same change to both examples?
> >> Yes, that's what the patch is intended for to fix l3fwd-graph and tx queues will scale with lcores and limited by RTE_MAX_LCORES.
> 
> >But it is not done the same way.
> > Here you remove MAX_TX_QUEUE_PER_PORT.
> > Do you want to do the same in l3fwd?
> Yes, it's better to fix the same in l3fwd as "MAX_TX_QUEUE_PER_PORT" is redundant.
> I can submit a separate patch for l3fwd.

Better to fix in a single patch.
Please check if there are similar issue in other examples.





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