From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: <mst@redhat.com>, <mashirle@us.ibm.com>, <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>,
<habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
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<jwhan@filewood.snu.ac.kr>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<akong@redhat.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <sri@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC V5 5/5] virtio_net: support negotiating the number of queues through ctrl vq
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:13:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341864803.2535.53.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341484194-8108-6-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 18:29 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch let the virtio_net driver can negotiate the number of queues it
> wishes to use through control virtqueue and export an ethtool interface to let
> use tweak it.
>
> As current multiqueue virtio-net implementation has optimizations on per-cpu
> virtuqueues, so only two modes were support:
>
> - single queue pair mode
> - multiple queue paris mode, the number of queues matches the number of vcpus
>
> The single queue mode were used by default currently due to regression of
> multiqueue mode in some test (especially in stream test).
>
> Since virtio core does not support paritially deleting virtqueues, so during
> mode switching the whole virtqueue were deleted and the driver would re-create
> the virtqueues it would used.
>
> btw. The queue number negotiating were defered to .ndo_open(), this is because
> only after feature negotitaion could we send the command to control virtqueue
> (as it may also use event index).
[...]
> +static int virtnet_set_channels(struct net_device *dev,
> + struct ethtool_channels *channels)
> +{
> + struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> + u16 queues = channels->rx_count;
> + unsigned status = VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_ACKNOWLEDGE | VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER;
> +
> + if (channels->rx_count != channels->tx_count)
> + return -EINVAL;
[...]
> +static void virtnet_get_channels(struct net_device *dev,
> + struct ethtool_channels *channels)
> +{
> + struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> +
> + channels->max_rx = vi->total_queue_pairs;
> + channels->max_tx = vi->total_queue_pairs;
> + channels->max_other = 0;
> + channels->max_combined = 0;
> + channels->rx_count = vi->num_queue_pairs;
> + channels->tx_count = vi->num_queue_pairs;
> + channels->other_count = 0;
> + channels->combined_count = 0;
> +}
[...]
It looks like the queue-pairs should be treated as 'combined channels',
not separate RX and TX channels. Also you don't need to clear the other
members; you can assume that the ethtool core will zero-initialise
structures for 'get' operations.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-09 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-05 10:29 [net-next RFC V5 0/5] Multiqueue virtio-net Jason Wang
2012-07-05 10:29 ` [net-next RFC V5 1/5] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_MULTIQUEUE Jason Wang
2012-07-05 10:29 ` [net-next RFC V5 2/5] virtio_ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue Jason Wang
2012-07-05 11:40 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-06 3:17 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-26 8:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-30 3:30 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-05 10:29 ` [net-next RFC V5 3/5] virtio: intorduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue Jason Wang
2012-07-27 14:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-29 20:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-30 6:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 15:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 15:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 15:35 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-05 10:29 ` [net-next RFC V5 4/5] virtio_net: multiqueue support Jason Wang
2012-07-05 20:02 ` Amos Kong
2012-07-06 7:45 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-20 13:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-21 12:02 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-23 5:54 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-23 9:28 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-30 3:29 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-29 9:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-30 3:26 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-30 13:00 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-23 5:48 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-29 9:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-30 5:15 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-05 10:29 ` [net-next RFC V5 5/5] virtio_net: support negotiating the number of queues through ctrl vq Jason Wang
2012-07-05 12:51 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-05 20:07 ` Amos Kong
2012-07-06 7:46 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-06 3:20 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-06 6:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-06 9:26 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-06 8:10 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-09 20:13 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-07-20 12:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-23 5:32 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-05 17:45 ` [net-next RFC V5 0/5] Multiqueue virtio-net Rick Jones
2012-07-06 7:42 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-06 16:23 ` Rick Jones
2012-07-09 3:23 ` Jason Wang
2012-07-09 16:46 ` Rick Jones
2012-07-08 8:19 ` Ronen Hod
2012-07-09 5:35 ` Jason Wang
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