Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:12:54 -0700 From: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: netmap: traffic distribution Message-ID: <CALCpEUHLLfvakMzDJPL=tPym1d6m13Wgbid7NOWEoMxZ1%2B6kGg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BhQ2%2Bg4%2B2P_L8kLLL0Svky3xrvxJW7zjc07xSTgNknEqNvr0A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALCpEUFhfcZO9keQ_fpmCQhg5DVA5DNrG5Neogm5TV_QiAYPRw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BhQ2%2Bid6tEcmtRWu4%2BLFZDmthwto3rAdqrSyJrY-r%2BJx=vhhg@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUENg%2BVq0Z0Evpw=7VEBTLq_T2eZQ9UgSpsxUn5OOjd3eQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BhQ2%2Bg4%2B2P_L8kLLL0Svky3xrvxJW7zjc07xSTgNknEqNvr0A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, hiren panchasara > <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, hiren panchasara > >> <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > I am providing line rate traffic (via pkg-gen.c) to my 10gig ix > >> > interface. > >> > > >> > Now on receiving side, is there a way to sub-divide the traffic into > >> > multiple workloads using netmap? > >> > > >> > For example, can I get two 5G flows from 10Gbps traffic? > >> > >> not directly. You'd need to send packets with different addresses that > >> match > >> the way the filters on the NIC (RSS or similar) are programmed. > > > > > > Thanks for quick responses, Liugi. > > > > So, FreeBSD needs PF_RING like thing? Any other way we can do it? > > no, > PF_RING does nothing more than netmap. > Okay. > > the partitioning of traffic into queues is done by the NIC's hardware, > through some filters that i mentioned and are NIC specific. > They are often named RSS (receive side scaling), RFS (receive flow > steering), > Flow Director, and so on. Some NICs compute a hash of various header > fields > and use the result to direct packets to specific queues. Others have > "exact match" filters where you can map certain mac headers to > specific queues, and so on. > Alright. I will investigate more about RSS/RFS for ixgbe. Thanks a bunch, Hiren > > A software demultiplexer that sits on top of a netmap ring > may certainly be useful, but i have not yet designed it. > > > cheers > luigi >
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