RSS on FreeBSD stable/12 gateway

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 23:08, Özkan KIRIK <ozkan.kirik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks,
>
> I wonder that, why RSS and PCBGROUP options are not enabled in GENERIC
> kernel by default.
> Is there any performance or stability issues?

I've been running it for years at home on my desktop machine with zero issues.
However, I'm likely a special case because I hacked on it for a while. ;-)

Hans - which iflib intel hardware corrupted it? It's possible someone
undid a bunch of work I did when figuring out what the heck RSS needed
to make it actually work work, or it could be the 10/40g hardware they
shipped that was actually really broken :(



-adrian

>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:26 AM Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
>
> > On 3/7/21 10:03 PM, Özkan KIRIK wrote:
> > > Any suggestions to enable RSS ?
> >
> > I found that RSS hardware computed checksums are not correct when using
> > iflib (intel hardware), compared to what the software expects, so
> > traffic goes on wrong queue and gets dropped simply. Maybe you see
> > something similar.
> >
> > --HPS
> >
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