netdev - Re: surprising memory request

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:06:34 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Dirk Hohndel <dirk@...ndel.org>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: surprising memory request

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 17:59 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 09:46 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> > #define MAX_TAP_QUEUES 1024
> > 
> > Thats crazy if your machine has say 8 cpus.
> 
> Even crazier if your userspace is never going to *use* MQ. Can't we
> default to one queue unless userspace explicitly requests more?

I don't know about tun's internal TX queue structures but the core TX
queue structures immediately follow struct net_device and you have to
set a maximum when allocating it.

Ben.

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