netdev - Re: Unable to create more than 1 guest virtio-net device using vhost-net backend

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Message-ID: <20100321102143.GC13522@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:21:43 +0200
From:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to create more than 1 guest virtio-net device using
 vhost-net backend

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:11:33PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/21/2010 11:55 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 03:19:27PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> >>When creating a guest with 2 virtio-net interfaces, i am running
> >>into a issue causing the 2nd i/f falling back to userpace virtio
> >>even when vhost is enabled.
> >>
> >>After some debugging, it turned out that KVM_IOEVENTFD ioctl()
> >>call in qemu is failing with ENOSPC.
> >>This is because of the NR_IOBUS_DEVS(6) limit in kvm_io_bus_register_dev()
> >>routine in the host kernel.
> >>
> >>I think we need to increase this limit if we want to support multiple
> >>network interfaces using vhost-net.
> >>Is there an alternate solution?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Sridhar
> >Nothing easy that I can see. Each device needs 2 of these.  Avi, Gleb,
> >any objections to increasing the limit to say 16?  That would give us
> >5 more devices to the limit of 6 per guest.
> 
> Increase it to 200, then.
> 
Currently on each device read/write we iterate over all registered
devices. This is not scalable.

> Is the limit visible to userspace?  If not, we need to expose it.
> 
> -- 
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

--
			Gleb.
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