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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: DPDK mbuf pool in SR-IOV env and one RX/TX queue
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:09:31 -0800
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 08:35:20PM -0800, Saurabh Mishra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Is it possible for two or more processes to share the same mbuf_pool in
> SR-IOV with single rx/tx queue?
> 
>
The sharing of the mbuf pool is not an issue, but sharing of rx/tx queues is.
The ethdev queues are not multi-thread safe, so to share a queue between processes
or threads, you need to put in locks or other access control mechanisms. [This
also implies a performance hit due to the locking]

Regards,
/Bruce