Igb Receive Side Scaling for NIC not working in RHEL 5.8
Issue
- Igb Receive Side Scaling for NIC not working in RHEL 5.8
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RHEL 5.8 does not configure the RSS (Receive Side Scaling) function of the NIC 82599. As a result all incoming IP packets are on the same queue and at the end only one Core processes the user plane. All incoming IP traffic for
10Geth0received on10Geth0-rx-11. As a result, there is no spreading the processing on to multipe CPU cores after disabling the irqbalance service. -
On earlier kernels, for example kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 the traffic was split between
10Geth0-rx-0to10Geth0-rx-11. The issue occurs in 2.6.18-308.el5 kernel.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 version 8
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