netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] virtio-net: initial debugfs support, export mergeable rx buffer size

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:38:08 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	Michael Dalton <mwdalton@...gle.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	lf-virt <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] virtio-net: initial debugfs support,
 export mergeable rx buffer size

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:40 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 03:32:28PM -0800, Michael Dalton wrote:
[...]
> > The last issue is how the rx_queue_attribute 'show' function
> > implementation for mergeable_rx_buffer_size will access the appropriate
> > per-receive queue EWMA data. The arguments to the show function will be
> > the netdev_rx_queue and the attribute itself. We can get to the
> > struct net_device from the netdev_rx_queue.  If we extended
> > netdev_rx_queue to indicate the queue_index or to store a void *priv_data
> > pointer, that would be sufficient to allow us to resolve this issue.
> 
> Hmm netdev_rx_queue is not defined unless CONFIG_RPS is set.
> Maybe we should use a different structure.
[...]

I don't think RPS should own this structure.  It's just that there are
currently no per-RX-queue attributes other than those defined by RPS.

By the way, CONFIG_RPS is equivalent to CONFIG_SMP so will likely be
enabled already in most places where virtio_net is used.

Ben.

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