[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] net/virtio: add initial RSS support

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 10/19/21 06:47, Xia, Chenbo wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021 6:21 PM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia at intel.com>; amorenoz at redhat.com;
>> david.marchand at redhat.com; andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru; Yigit, Ferruh
>> <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; michaelba at nvidia.com; viacheslavo at nvidia.com; Li,
>> Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
>> Cc: nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com; yvugenfi at redhat.com; ybendito at redhat.com;
>> Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH v5 1/5] net/virtio: add initial RSS support
>>
>> Provide the capability to update the hash key, hash types
>> and RETA table on the fly (without needing to stop/start
>> the device). However, the key length and the number of RETA
>> entries are fixed to 40B and 128 entries respectively. This
>> is done in order to simplify the design, but may be
>> revisited later as the Virtio spec provides this
>> flexibility.
>>
>> Note that only VIRTIO_NET_F_RSS support is implemented,
>> VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, which would enable reporting the
>> packet RSS hash calculated by the device into mbuf.rss, is
>> not yet supported.
>>
>> Regarding the default RSS configuration, it has been
>> chosen to use the default Intel ixgbe key as default key,
>> and default RETA is a simple modulo between the hash and
>> the number of Rx queues.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> 2.31.1
> 
> Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
> 
> And I think the reported issue in patchwork is not related with
> this series.
> 

Thanks, I agree this does not seem related.

Maxime