[PATCH] examples/l3fwd: relax the RSS/Offload requirement

[Trevor Tao]

Hi Stephen:

Yes,  I think there is no point in doing RSS if only a single queue, but for the 2nd part:
"|| !local_port_conf.rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf"
It's an "or" relationship with the dev_info.max_rx_queues==1, and in my case, the device(virtio) information showed that
the max_rx_queues is not 1 but the rss_hf is 0:
......
Initializing port 0 ... Creating queues: nb_rxq=1 nb_txq=1...
Trevor: dev_info.max_rx_queues=16, local_port_conf.rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf = 0x0
......

So in this case, the mq_mode should also be set to RTE_ETH_MQ_RX_NONE to disable the RSS.

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Zijin Tao(Trevor Tao, 陶孜谨)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 11:39 PM
To: Trevor Tao <Trevor.Tao at arm.com>
Cc: thomas at monjalon.net; dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] examples/l3fwd: relax the RSS/Offload requirement

On Thu, 11 May 2023 09:33:35 +0000
Trevor Tao <Trevor.Tao at arm.com> wrote:

> +               /* relax the rx rss requirement */
> +               if (dev_info.max_rx_queues == 1 || !local_port_conf.rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf) {
> +                       printf("warning: modified the rx mq_mode to RTE_ETH_MQ_RX_NONE base on"
> +                               " device capability\n");
>                         local_port_conf.rxmode.mq_mode = RTE_ETH_MQ_RX_NONE;
> +               }

There is no point in doing RSS if only a single queue.
Therefore remove the !local_port.conf portion of the expression.

And since this is normal, no printf is needed.
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