netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: add per-vq worker thread

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Date:   Mon, 5 Nov 2018 21:59:31 -0500
From:   Vitaly Mayatskih <v.mayatskih@...il.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: add per-vq worker thread

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:49 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:

> If you allow device to specify the worker itself, you can do any kinds
> of mapping bettween work and worker kthread I think. The advantage of
> doing this is that you can keep the vhost-net untouched. This makes
> things a little bit easier and proving two kthreads is better than one
> for -net workload is probably not as easy as it looks. We may get boost
> in some cases but degradation for the rest.

Sounds good. 1 worker is created by vhost as today, all the others are
entering from userspace via ioctl.
-- 
wbr, Vitaly