netdev - Re: [net-next rfc v7 1/3] virtio-net: separate fields of sending/receiving queue from virtnet

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Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:23:21 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	mst@...hat.com, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, jwhan@...ewood.snu.ac.kr,
	shiyer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next rfc v7 1/3] virtio-net: separate fields of sending/receiving queue from virtnet_info

On Tuesday, December 04, 2012 02:13:11 PM Rusty Russell wrote:
> Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> writes:
> > On Monday, December 03, 2012 12:25:42 PM Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> > +
> >> > +	/* Work struct for refilling if we run low on memory. */
> >> > +	struct delayed_work refill;
> >> 
> >> I can't really see the justificaiton for a refill per queue.  Just have
> >> one work iterate all the queues if it happens, unless it happens often
> >> (in which case, we need to look harder at this anyway).
> > 
> > But during this kind of iteration, we may need enable/disable the napi
> > regardless of whether the receive queue has lots to be refilled. This may
> > add extra latency.
> 
> Sure, but does it actually happen?  We only use the work when we run out
> of memory.  If this happens in normal behaviour we need to change
> something else...

True, I will change to use a global one.

Thanks
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
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