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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mlx4: use dummy rxqs when a non-pow2
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:18:58 +0000
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:24:41AM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote:
> When using RSS, the number of rxqs has to be a power of two.
> This is a problem because there is no API in DPDK that makes
> the application aware of that.
> 
> A good compromise is to allow the application to request a
> number of rxqs that is not a power of 2, but having inactive
> queues that will never receive packets. In this configuration,
> a warning will be issued to users to let them know that
> this is not an optimal configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/rel_16_04

/Bruce