Receive side scaling (RSS)

Reference http://galsagie.github.io/2015/02/26/dpdk-tips-1/ https://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/TR-symRSS.pdf What is RSS? Receive side scaling (RSS) is a network driver technology that enables the efficient distribution of network receive processing across multiple CPUs in multiprocessor systems. What it does is issue a hash function with a predefined hash key on every packet coming in. The hash function takes the packet IP … Continue reading Receive side scaling (RSS)