netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-net 0/2] Increase the limit of tuntap queues

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:05:51 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pagupta@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com, dgibson@...hat.com,
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	stephen@...workplumber.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-net 0/2] Increase the limit of tuntap queues

From: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:41:27 +0530

> Networking under KVM works best if we allocate a per-vCPU rx and tx
> queue in a virtual NIC. This requires a per-vCPU queue on the host side.
> Modern physical NICs have multiqueue support for large number of queues.
> To scale vNIC to run multiple queues parallel to maximum number of vCPU's
> we need to increase number of queues support in tuntap.   

Series applied, thanks for following up on this.
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