Re: [Question] ixgbe：Mechanism of RSS

[Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com>]

On 2025/1/2 16:13, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi masters,
>>
>>         We use the Intel Corporation 82599ES NIC in our production environment. And it has 63 rx queues, every rx queue interrupt is processed by a single cpu.
>>         The RSS configuration can be seen as follow:
>>
>>         RX flow hash indirection table for eno5 with 63 RX ring(s):
>>         0:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         8:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         16:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         24:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         32:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         40:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         48:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         56:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         64:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         72:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         80:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         88:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         96:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         104:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>         112:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>>         120:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>>
>>         The maximum number of RSS queues is 16. So I have some questions about this. Will other cpus except 0~15 receive the rx interrupts?
>>
>>         In our production environment, cpu 16~62 also receive the rx interrupts. Was our RSS misconfigured?
> 
> It really depends on which cpus are assigned to each IRQ.
> 

Hi Eric,

Each irq was assigned to a single cpu, for exapmle:

irq	cpu

117      0
118      1

......

179      62

All cpus trigger interrupts not only cpus 0~15. 
It seems that the result is inconsistent with the RSS hash value.


Thanks!

> Look at /proc/irq/{IRQ_NUM}/smp_affinity
> 
> Also you can have some details in Documentation/networking/scaling.rst