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Message-ID: <20100913090415.GB29333@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:04:15 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com> Cc: anthony@...emonkey.ws, davem@...emloft.net, kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:50:42AM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote on 09/12/2010 05:16:37 PM: > > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> > > 09/12/2010 05:16 PM > > > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:19:33PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote: > > > Unfortunately I need a > > > constant in vhost for now. > > > > Maybe not even that: you create multiple vhost-net > > devices so vhost-net in kernel does not care about these > > either, right? So this can be just part of vhost_net.h > > in qemu. > > Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant. > > I can remove all socks[] arrays/constants by pre-allocating > sockets in vhost_setup_vqs. Then I can remove all "socks" > parameters in vhost_net_stop, vhost_net_release and > vhost_net_reset_owner. > > Does this make sense? > > Thanks, > > - KK Here's what I mean: each vhost device includes 1 TX and 1 RX VQ. Instead of teaching vhost about multiqueue, we could simply open /dev/vhost-net multiple times. How many times would be up to qemu. -- MST -- 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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