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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: 82599 SR-IOV with passthrough
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:47:41 +0200
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17/10/2013 14:43, jigsaw :
> I patched both Intel ixgbe PF driver and DPDK 1.5 VF driver, so that
> DPDK gets 4 queues in one VF. It works fine with all 4 Tx queues. The
> only trick is to set proper mac address for all outgoing packets,
> which must be the same mac as you set to the VF. This trick is
> described in the release note of DPDK.
> 
> I wonder whether it makes sense to push this patch to DPDK. Any comments?

Yes I think it makes sense.
Is it possible to get the number of configured queues via mailbox ?

-- 
Thomas