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From: Vijay Singh <vijju.singh@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What does adapter->stats.mpc[] report for ixgbe?
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> normal net traffic. But for now in FreeBSD its just one which is divided
> into 3 parts: TX, RX, and FDIR (flow director).

Jack, does the sw driver control in any way the partitioning of the
FIFO? I guess enabling 2 hw queues splits the FIFO in half. But
otherwise does the driver control this in any way?

-vijay