From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jon Zhou <Jon.Zhou@jdsu.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to utilize multi tx queue to sent packets
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:14:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314111443.149b56a9@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6A2125329CFD4D8CC40C9E8ABCAB9F24FB47E9EE@MILEXCH2.ds.jdsu.net>
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:06:11 -0800
Jon Zhou <Jon.Zhou@jdsu.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@vyatta.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:07 AM
> > To: Jon Zhou
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: how to utilize multi tx queue to sent packets
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:52:30 -0800
> > Jon Zhou <Jon.Zhou@jdsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hi
> > >
> > > I am doing some test according to the
> > > website:http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/index.php5?title=Linux_packet_mmap
> > >
> > > use packet_mmap tx_ring to send packet.
> > >
> > > I modified the sample code "packetmmap.c" to make it send packets
> > have different outer ip.
> > > so that with the help of RSS, I can achieve higher throughput.
> > >
> > > but one thing I saw at the tx side, is that all the packets are sent
> > via the same tx_queue,
> > > which is conflict with what I saw at the rx side.
> > > any idea to make it sent packets via different tx_queues? (spread
> > across the tx_queues)
> >
> > You need to have multiple threads to get Tx scaling.
> > In you case that also means multiple AF_PACKET sockets and separate
> > rings.
> >
> > Or just run multiple copies of the same test each with a different IP
>
> How does kernel know which tx_queue to use?
> Will dev_queue_xmit determine tx_queue(sw queue) to send packets?
> Or just let NIC select a tx_queue(hardware) ?
>
On most hardware, with multi-queue there is one queue per CPU.
In that case the queue selected corresponds to the CPU.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 6:52 how to utilize multi tx queue to sent packets Jon Zhou
2011-03-11 17:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-13 9:06 ` Jon Zhou
2011-03-14 18:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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