Multiqueue on virtio NIC

[Luca De Andreis]

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

[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

[Luca De Andreis]

@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