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Date:	Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:24:08 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2] virtio-net: switch to use XPS to choose txq

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 03:37:17PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> We used to use a percpu structure vq_index to record the cpu to queue
>> mapping, this is suboptimal since it duplicates the work of XPS and
>> loses all other XPS functionality such as allowing use to configure
>> their own transmission steering strategy.
>> 
>> So this patch switches to use XPS and suggest a default mapping when
>> the number of cpus is equal to the number of queues. With XPS support,
>> there's no need for keeping per-cpu vq_index and .ndo_select_queue(),
>> so they were removed also.
>> 
>> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

Dave, please apply.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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