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> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Markowski<mmarkowski@leon.pl>wrote:

>> (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU),

>> hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16

If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn't there be 16 kernel 
threads for queue processing?