diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index aec1de9..5f9a1cf 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
 	 * RX function */
 	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY){
 		if (eth_dev->data->scattered_rx)
-			eth_dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts;
+			eth_dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro_single_alloc;
 		return 0;
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h
index 5b90115..419ea5d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h
@@ -352,9 +352,6 @@ void ixgbevf_dev_rxtx_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev);
 uint16_t ixgbe_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 		uint16_t nb_pkts);
 
-uint16_t ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts(void *rx_queue,
-		struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts);
-
 uint16_t ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro_single_alloc(void *rx_queue,
 		struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts);
 uint16_t ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro_bulk_alloc(void *rx_queue,
diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
index a45f51e..c23e20f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
@@ -1722,239 +1722,6 @@ ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro_bulk_alloc(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 	return ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro(rx_queue, rx_pkts, nb_pkts, true);
 }
 
-uint16_t
-ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
-			  uint16_t nb_pkts)
-{
-	struct ixgbe_rx_queue *rxq;
-	volatile union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc *rx_ring;
-	volatile union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc *rxdp;
-	struct ixgbe_rx_entry *sw_ring;
-	struct ixgbe_rx_entry *rxe;
-	struct rte_mbuf *first_seg;
-	struct rte_mbuf *last_seg;
-	struct rte_mbuf *rxm;
-	struct rte_mbuf *nmb;
-	union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc rxd;
-	uint64_t dma; /* Physical address of mbuf data buffer */
-	uint32_t staterr;
-	uint16_t rx_id;
-	uint16_t nb_rx;
-	uint16_t nb_hold;
-	uint16_t data_len;
-
-	nb_rx = 0;
-	nb_hold = 0;
-	rxq = rx_queue;
-	rx_id = rxq->rx_tail;
-	rx_ring = rxq->rx_ring;
-	sw_ring = rxq->sw_ring;
-
-	/*
-	 * Retrieve RX context of current packet, if any.
-	 */
-	first_seg = rxq->pkt_first_seg;
-	last_seg = rxq->pkt_last_seg;
-
-	while (nb_rx < nb_pkts) {
-	next_desc:
-		/*
-		 * The order of operations here is important as the DD status
-		 * bit must not be read after any other descriptor fields.
-		 * rx_ring and rxdp are pointing to volatile data so the order
-		 * of accesses cannot be reordered by the compiler. If they were
-		 * not volatile, they could be reordered which could lead to
-		 * using invalid descriptor fields when read from rxd.
-		 */
-		rxdp = &rx_ring[rx_id];
-		staterr = rxdp->wb.upper.status_error;
-		if (! (staterr & rte_cpu_to_le_32(IXGBE_RXDADV_STAT_DD)))
-			break;
-		rxd = *rxdp;
-
-		/*
-		 * Descriptor done.
-		 *
-		 * Allocate a new mbuf to replenish the RX ring descriptor.
-		 * If the allocation fails:
-		 *    - arrange for that RX descriptor to be the first one
-		 *      being parsed the next time the receive function is
-		 *      invoked [on the same queue].
-		 *
-		 *    - Stop parsing the RX ring and return immediately.
-		 *
-		 * This policy does not drop the packet received in the RX
-		 * descriptor for which the allocation of a new mbuf failed.
-		 * Thus, it allows that packet to be later retrieved if
-		 * mbuf have been freed in the mean time.
-		 * As a side effect, holding RX descriptors instead of
-		 * systematically giving them back to the NIC may lead to
-		 * RX ring exhaustion situations.
-		 * However, the NIC can gracefully prevent such situations
-		 * to happen by sending specific "back-pressure" flow control
-		 * frames to its peer(s).
-		 */
-		PMD_RX_LOG(DEBUG, "port_id=%u queue_id=%u rx_id=%u "
-			   "staterr=0x%x data_len=%u",
-			   (unsigned) rxq->port_id, (unsigned) rxq->queue_id,
-			   (unsigned) rx_id, (unsigned) staterr,
-			   (unsigned) rte_le_to_cpu_16(rxd.wb.upper.length));
-
-		nmb = rte_rxmbuf_alloc(rxq->mb_pool);
-		if (nmb == NULL) {
-			PMD_RX_LOG(DEBUG, "RX mbuf alloc failed port_id=%u "
-				   "queue_id=%u", (unsigned) rxq->port_id,
-				   (unsigned) rxq->queue_id);
-			rte_eth_devices[rxq->port_id].data->rx_mbuf_alloc_failed++;
-			break;
-		}
-
-		nb_hold++;
-		rxe = &sw_ring[rx_id];
-		rx_id++;
-		if (rx_id == rxq->nb_rx_desc)
-			rx_id = 0;
-
-		/* Prefetch next mbuf while processing current one. */
-		rte_ixgbe_prefetch(sw_ring[rx_id].mbuf);
-
-		/*
-		 * When next RX descriptor is on a cache-line boundary,
-		 * prefetch the next 4 RX descriptors and the next 8 pointers
-		 * to mbufs.
-		 */
-		if ((rx_id & 0x3) == 0) {
-			rte_ixgbe_prefetch(&rx_ring[rx_id]);
-			rte_ixgbe_prefetch(&sw_ring[rx_id]);
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * Update RX descriptor with the physical address of the new
-		 * data buffer of the new allocated mbuf.
-		 */
-		rxm = rxe->mbuf;
-		rxe->mbuf = nmb;
-		dma = rte_cpu_to_le_64(RTE_MBUF_DATA_DMA_ADDR_DEFAULT(nmb));
-		rxdp->read.hdr_addr = dma;
-		rxdp->read.pkt_addr = dma;
-
-		/*
-		 * Set data length & data buffer address of mbuf.
-		 */
-		data_len = rte_le_to_cpu_16(rxd.wb.upper.length);
-		rxm->data_len = data_len;
-		rxm->data_off = RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM;
-
-		/*
-		 * If this is the first buffer of the received packet,
-		 * set the pointer to the first mbuf of the packet and
-		 * initialize its context.
-		 * Otherwise, update the total length and the number of segments
-		 * of the current scattered packet, and update the pointer to
-		 * the last mbuf of the current packet.
-		 */
-		if (first_seg == NULL) {
-			first_seg = rxm;
-			first_seg->pkt_len = data_len;
-			first_seg->nb_segs = 1;
-		} else {
-			first_seg->pkt_len = (uint16_t)(first_seg->pkt_len
-					+ data_len);
-			first_seg->nb_segs++;
-			last_seg->next = rxm;
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * If this is not the last buffer of the received packet,
-		 * update the pointer to the last mbuf of the current scattered
-		 * packet and continue to parse the RX ring.
-		 */
-		if (! (staterr & IXGBE_RXDADV_STAT_EOP)) {
-			last_seg = rxm;
-			goto next_desc;
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * This is the last buffer of the received packet.
-		 * If the CRC is not stripped by the hardware:
-		 *   - Subtract the CRC	length from the total packet length.
-		 *   - If the last buffer only contains the whole CRC or a part
-		 *     of it, free the mbuf associated to the last buffer.
-		 *     If part of the CRC is also contained in the previous
-		 *     mbuf, subtract the length of that CRC part from the
-		 *     data length of the previous mbuf.
-		 */
-		rxm->next = NULL;
-		if (unlikely(rxq->crc_len > 0)) {
-			first_seg->pkt_len -= ETHER_CRC_LEN;
-			if (data_len <= ETHER_CRC_LEN) {
-				rte_pktmbuf_free_seg(rxm);
-				first_seg->nb_segs--;
-				last_seg->data_len = (uint16_t)
-					(last_seg->data_len -
-					 (ETHER_CRC_LEN - data_len));
-				last_seg->next = NULL;
-			} else
-				rxm->data_len =
-					(uint16_t) (data_len - ETHER_CRC_LEN);
-		}
-
-		/* Initialize the first mbuf of the returned packet */
-		ixgbe_fill_cluster_head_buf(first_seg, &rxd, rxq->port_id,
-					    staterr);
-
-		/* Prefetch data of first segment, if configured to do so. */
-		rte_packet_prefetch((char *)first_seg->buf_addr +
-			first_seg->data_off);
-
-		/*
-		 * Store the mbuf address into the next entry of the array
-		 * of returned packets.
-		 */
-		rx_pkts[nb_rx++] = first_seg;
-
-		/*
-		 * Setup receipt context for a new packet.
-		 */
-		first_seg = NULL;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Record index of the next RX descriptor to probe.
-	 */
-	rxq->rx_tail = rx_id;
-
-	/*
-	 * Save receive context.
-	 */
-	rxq->pkt_first_seg = first_seg;
-	rxq->pkt_last_seg = last_seg;
-
-	/*
-	 * If the number of free RX descriptors is greater than the RX free
-	 * threshold of the queue, advance the Receive Descriptor Tail (RDT)
-	 * register.
-	 * Update the RDT with the value of the last processed RX descriptor
-	 * minus 1, to guarantee that the RDT register is never equal to the
-	 * RDH register, which creates a "full" ring situtation from the
-	 * hardware point of view...
-	 */
-	nb_hold = (uint16_t) (nb_hold + rxq->nb_rx_hold);
-	if (nb_hold > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
-		PMD_RX_LOG(DEBUG, "port_id=%u queue_id=%u rx_tail=%u "
-			   "nb_hold=%u nb_rx=%u",
-			   (unsigned) rxq->port_id, (unsigned) rxq->queue_id,
-			   (unsigned) rx_id, (unsigned) nb_hold,
-			   (unsigned) nb_rx);
-		rx_id = (uint16_t) ((rx_id == 0) ?
-				     (rxq->nb_rx_desc - 1) : (rx_id - 1));
-		IXGBE_PCI_REG_WRITE(rxq->rdt_reg_addr, rx_id);
-		nb_hold = 0;
-	}
-	rxq->nb_rx_hold = nb_hold;
-	return (nb_rx);
-}
-
 /*********************************************************************
  *
  *  Queue management functions
@@ -2623,7 +2390,7 @@ ixgbe_dev_rx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		return (-ENOMEM);
 	}
 
-	if (rsc_requested) {
+	if (rsc_requested || dev_rx_mode->enable_scatter) {
 		rxq->sw_rsc_ring =
 			rte_zmalloc_socket("rxq->sw_rsc_ring",
 					   sizeof(struct ixgbe_rsc_entry) * len,
@@ -4017,12 +3784,13 @@ void ixgbe_set_rx_function(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 
 			dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts_vec;
 		} else {
-			PMD_INIT_LOG(DEBUG, "Using Regualr (non-vector) "
+			PMD_INIT_LOG(DEBUG, "Using Regualr (non-vector, "
+					    "single allocation) "
 					    "Scattered Rx callback "
 					    "(port=%d).",
 				     dev->data->port_id);
 
-			dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts;
+			dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro_single_alloc;
 		}
 	/*
 	 * Below we set "simple" callbacks according to port/queues parameters.
@@ -4855,7 +4623,8 @@ ixgbevf_dev_rx_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 					ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts_vec;
 			else
 #endif
-				dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts;
+				dev->rx_pkt_burst =
+					ixgbe_recv_pkts_lro_single_alloc;
 		}
 	}
 
