vRSS support on FreeBSD

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 13 06:53:53 UTC 2014


On 12 August 2014 23:27, Wei Hu <weh at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately I am not aware of any official spec.

Damn!

Ok, so when they send the update for the redirect table, what's that
look like? How do they send it?

> The driver for Linux guest OS does the similar thing for the tx path -- receive the send table update from host, calculate the hash value for each tx packet and use it to find the tx queue from the send table.
>
> I think the Windows guests do the same.

I wonder if there's any possibility for getting that added to the
receive packet descriptor if the underlying hardware supports it - or
well, if the OS has done it already.




-a


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