RE: does the broadcom bnx2x support RSS/multi queue

Jon Zhou
2010-05-17T08:06:08Z

hi eric:

"very recent kernel" -- do you you mean "receive packet steering"?

thanks
jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:00 PM
To: Jon Zhou
Cc: eilong@broadcom.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: does the broadcom bnx2x support RSS/multi queue

Le mercredi 12 mai 2010 à 02:34 -0700, Jon Zhou a écrit :
> hi eilon:
>
> do you think I need to update the kernel also?
>
> thanks!
> jon

I believe both of us (Eilong and me) stated your kernel version was too
old.

In order to play with multiqueue, you should use a very recent kernel,
or hit various bottlenecks and bugs.