[PATCH] app/testpmd: add flag to enable RSS for single-queue

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Jul 22 16:08:15 CEST 2025


On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:53:30 +0000
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> For testing purposes it can be desirable to enable RSS even when only a
> single queue per port is in use. Add an "enable-rss" flag to testpmd to
> match the existing "disable-rss" flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---

Not sure about this.
It makes no sense to have RSS enabled with single queue.
Maybe you want the hash but no steering?

But the DPDK RSS flag doesn't require driver to produce HASH.

I would even argue that ethdev layer should warn application
trying to do single queue and RSS.


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