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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:08:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: Paul.Durrant@...rix.com Cc: wei.liu2@...rix.com, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, Ian.Campbell@...rix.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net] xen-netback: bookkeep number of queues in our own module From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 07:59:16 +0000 > Bear in mind that the original intention of the multi-queue patches > was to allow the queue selection algorithm to be negotiated with the > frontend (see > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-06/msg02654.html). Particularly, > if the frontend is Windows then netback will need to use a Toeplitz > hash to steer traffic since this is stipulated by Microsoft's RSS > (Receive Side Scaling) interfaces. So, IMO netback should always > implement a select queue method, otherwise any (theoretical) > algorithm change in __netdev_pick_tx() would be immediately imposed > on frontends, possibly causing them to misbehave. I do not think you are obligated to use Toeplitz or whatever scheme the other side wants, especially if the user on the xen-netback side asked for XPS or similar to be used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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