[dpdk-dev] i40e queues per VF

Wu, Jingjing jingjing.wu at intel.com
Tue Mar 21 07:01:00 CET 2017


> > This number is used as initialization time to allocate queue number
> > for PF/VF for HW's queue pool. Will add more description in i40e.rst.
> 
> The description "Number of queues reserved for each SR-IOV VF" seems
> partially wrong. Please explain it is a queue pair.
> 
OK. Sure.

[......]

> > >
> > > Is there something to configure the number of queues when creating
> > > VF with the kernel driver?
> >
> > In kernel driver, it seems at most only 4 queues are supported. That's
> > Why we add  build-time config option to make more queues are possible.
> 
> If we can create 16 queue pairs, why restrict the default configuration to 4?
> Why is it a build-time config option?
If we allocate 16 queue pairs by default, then the number of VFs will be limited
Because of the entire queue resources on NIC.

Anyway, I will update doc on this part. Sorry for the delay because of trip.

Thanks
Jingjing


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