[dpdk-dev] Symmetric RSS Hashing, Part 2

Matthew Hall mhall at mhcomputing.net
Fri Mar 27 15:37:07 CET 2015


On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> Did you guys talk about symmetric hash in software or in hardware?
> 
> If about hardware, I have one comment.
> I40e supports symmetric hash by hardware, which was enabled in i40e PMD recently. You can have a try.
> 
> Regards,
> Helin

Hello Helin,

Very few of us have that hardware or driver yet.

It's also quite costly if you're doing the open-source model like I am.

Is there any way to get the symmetric mode to work for IGB or IXGBE?

Matthew.



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