From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: pagupta@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-net 0/4] Increase the limit of tuntap queues
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:44:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141119204427.GB30994@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141119.151628.768548269128919029.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:16:28PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:52:54 +0530
>
> > - Accept maximum number of queues as sysctl param so that any user space
> > application like libvirt can use this value to limit number of queues. Also
> > Administrators can specify maximum number of queues by updating this sysctl
> > entry.
>
> This is the only part I don't like.
>
> Just let whoever has privileges to configure the tun device shoot
> themselves in the foot if they want to by configuring "too many"
> queues.
>
> If the virtual entity runs itself out of resources by doing something
> stupid, it's purely their problem.
Well it will run host out of kernel, no?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 16:22 [PATCH net-net 0/4] Increase the limit of tuntap queues Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: allow large number of rx queues Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 20:29 ` Cong Wang
2014-11-20 16:31 ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] tuntap: Accept tuntap maximum number of queues as sysctl Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] tuntap: reduce the size of tun_struct by using flex array Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] tuntap: Increase the number of queues in tun Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-19 1:43 ` [PATCH net-net 0/4] Increase the limit of tuntap queues Alexei Starovoitov
2014-11-19 20:16 ` David Miller
2014-11-19 20:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-11-23 5:22 ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-23 10:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-23 18:43 ` David Miller
2014-11-23 20:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-24 1:23 ` David Miller
2014-11-24 8:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-24 14:28 ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-24 3:23 ` Jason Wang
2014-11-24 7:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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