From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: "Joe Jin" <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
"Paul Durrant" <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>,
"Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu number
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 03:28:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <562A19DA02000078000ADEE0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5629F851.6010309@oracle.com>
>>> On 23.10.15 at 11:05, <joe.jin@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2015 04:47 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-
>>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Joe Jin
>>> Sent: 23 October 2015 08:54
>>> To: Wei Liu; Ian Campbell; Boris Ostrovsky; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; David S.
>>> Miller
>>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
>>> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu
>>> number
>>>
>>> Currently xen vnic allowed to create lots of queues by set module param
>>> max_queues(both netback and netfront), when queues number larger than
>>> cpu number, it does not help for performance but need more cpu time.
>>>
>>
>> But it's an override, so why would you want to limit it? The parameter
> should not be set in the common case.
>
> Always we can not stop people use it because we provided it :)
Well, it's always a question of whether preventing the admin to
shoot himself in the foot makes sense: When it leads to an unusable
system, it probably does. When it leads to a sub-optimal working
system, perhaps we should allow them their freedom?
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-23 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-23 7:53 [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu number Joe Jin
2015-10-23 7:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] xen-netback: limit xen vif max queues number to online cpus Joe Jin
2015-10-23 7:58 ` Joe Jin
2015-10-23 8:20 ` Jan Beulich
2015-10-23 8:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2015-10-23 8:33 ` Joe Jin
2015-10-23 8:33 ` Joe Jin
2015-10-23 7:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] xen-front: limit vnic max_queues " Joe Jin
2015-10-23 7:59 ` Joe Jin
2015-10-23 8:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu number Paul Durrant
2015-10-23 8:47 ` Paul Durrant
2015-10-23 9:05 ` Joe Jin
2015-10-23 9:05 ` Joe Jin
2015-10-23 9:28 ` Jan Beulich
2015-10-23 9:28 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2015-10-23 9:57 ` Paul Durrant
2015-10-23 9:57 ` Paul Durrant
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