[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Enable VF RSS for Niantic

[Ouyang, Changchun]

My response as below.

From: Vlad Zolotarov [mailto:vladz at cloudius-systems.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:06 PM
To: dev at dpdk.org; Ouyang, Changchun
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Enable VF RSS for Niantic


On 12/18/14 12:11, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:

From: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang at intel.com><mailto:changchun.ouyang at intel.com>



This patch enables VF RSS for Niantic, which allow each VF having at most 4 queues.

The actual queue number per VF depends on the number of VF:

VF number from 1~32: 4 queues per VF;

VF number from 33~max vf num: 2 queues per VF;



On host, to enable VF RSS functionality, mq mode should be set as ETH_MQ_RX_VMDQ_RSS

or ETH_MQ_RX_RSS mode, and SRIOV mode should be activated.

It also needs config VF RSS information like hash function, RSS key, RSS key length.

This patch series is missing a few things:

  1.  Taking into the consideration the number of Rx queues requested by a user in the rte_eth_dev_configure().
Changchun: yes, will have a v2 to consider it, as I say in my previous response.

  1.  dev->dev_ops->reta_query used by a rte_eth_dev_rss_reta_query() is still not initialized for a VF. Thus there is no way to query the RSS table
Changchun: do you mean query rss table on guest? Niantic doesn't have separate reta for a specific vf, the reta is shared by pf and all vf.
Do you think of returning all reta contents for each vf make sense?  Or any other insight here?

  1.  rte_eth_dev_info_get() returns reta_size == 0 when called for a VF function.
Changchun:  same as above.
Your insight here are welcome here.
thanks
Changchun