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      Luca De Andreis last edited by

      Hi everyone,

      I would like to activate support for the multiqueue network in PfSense with the virtio paravirtualized network card.
      I have read a lot and it seems that the virtio driver cannot handle QOS together with the multiqueue. I use only limiters, so it should still be compatible.
      I haven't found any specific documentation, it seems that the virtio driver natively supports up to 8 queues, but I've never been able to activate more than one. Can any of you give me information on this?
      Activate multiqueue on NIC is easy, but in PfSense I don't understand what I need to set.

      Very thanks

      Luca

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        DaddyGo @Luca De Andreis last edited by DaddyGo

        @luca-de-andreis said in Multiqueue on virtio NIC:

        I would like to activate support for the multiqueue network in PfSense with the virtio paravirtualized network card.

        Hi,
        Maybe this is ✋ , watch @jimp 's response:

        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/138174/pfsense-vtnet-lack-of-queues/4

        BTW:
        ALTQ 😉

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          Luca De Andreis @DaddyGo last edited by

          @daddygo said in Multiqueue on virtio NIC:

          BTW:

          Ok, so in summary it is not possible to use multiqueue because the virtio driver is compiled with ALTQ support enabled. Either you recompile the kernel (so you will have a kernel with multiqueue support on the virtio but without support for ALTQ) or it is not possible.

          Very thanks !!!

          Luca

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