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Message-ID: <4FF5F2F2.9050307@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:02:58 +0800
From: Amos Kong <akong@...hat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
CC: mst@...hat.com, mashirle@...ibm.com, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
habanero@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
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Subject: Re: [net-next RFC V5 4/5] virtio_net: multiqueue support
On 07/05/2012 06:29 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch converts virtio_net to a multi queue device. After negotiated
> VIRTIO_NET_F_MULTIQUEUE feature, the virtio device has many tx/rx queue pairs,
> and driver could read the number from config space.
>
> The driver expects the number of rx/tx queue paris is equal to the number of
> vcpus. To maximize the performance under this per-cpu rx/tx queue pairs, some
> optimization were introduced:
>
> - Txq selection is based on the processor id in order to avoid contending a lock
> whose owner may exits to host.
> - Since the txq/txq were per-cpu, affinity hint were set to the cpu that owns
> the queue pairs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> ---
...
>
> static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> {
> - int err;
> + int i, err;
> struct net_device *dev;
> struct virtnet_info *vi;
> + u16 num_queues, num_queue_pairs;
> +
> + /* Find if host supports multiqueue virtio_net device */
> + err = virtio_config_val(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MULTIQUEUE,
> + offsetof(struct virtio_net_config,
> + num_queues), &num_queues);
> +
> + /* We need atleast 2 queue's */
s/atleast/at least/
> + if (err || num_queues < 2)
> + num_queues = 2;
> + if (num_queues > MAX_QUEUES * 2)
> + num_queues = MAX_QUEUES;
num_queues = MAX_QUEUES * 2;
MAX_QUEUES is the limitation of RX or TX.
> +
> + num_queue_pairs = num_queues / 2;
...
--
Amos.
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