From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: anthony@codemonkey.ws, davem@davemloft.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:04:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100913090415.GB29333@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF32429FD6.3F8CAEC5-ON6525779D.00169473-6525779D.0017A613@in.ibm.com>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:50:42AM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote on 09/12/2010 05:16:37 PM:
>
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > 09/12/2010 05:16 PM
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:19:33PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> > > Unfortunately I need a
> > > constant in vhost for now.
> >
> > Maybe not even that: you create multiple vhost-net
> > devices so vhost-net in kernel does not care about these
> > either, right? So this can be just part of vhost_net.h
> > in qemu.
>
> Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant.
>
> I can remove all socks[] arrays/constants by pre-allocating
> sockets in vhost_setup_vqs. Then I can remove all "socks"
> parameters in vhost_net_stop, vhost_net_release and
> vhost_net_reset_owner.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - KK
Here's what I mean: each vhost device includes 1 TX
and 1 RX VQ. Instead of teaching vhost about multiqueue,
we could simply open /dev/vhost-net multiple times.
How many times would be up to qemu.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 7:28 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08 7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci Krishna Kumar
2010-09-09 3:49 ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-09 5:23 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-09 12:14 ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-09 13:49 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-10 3:33 ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-12 11:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 4:20 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-13 9:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-09-13 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 16:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 17:00 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-15 5:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 17:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-15 5:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08 7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Changes for virtio-net Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08 7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] Changes for vhost Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08 7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] qemu changes Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08 7:47 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 9:22 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 10:17 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 14:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-08 16:47 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-09 10:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-09 13:19 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 8:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08 9:23 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 10:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08 12:19 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 16:47 ` Krishna Kumar2
[not found] ` <OF70542242.6CAA236A-ON65257798.0044A4E0-65257798.005C0E7C@LocalDomain>
2010-09-09 9:45 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-09 23:00 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-09-10 5:19 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-12 11:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 4:12 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-13 11:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 16:23 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-15 5:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <OF8043B2B7.7048D739-ON65257799.0021A2EE-65257799.00356B3E@LocalDomain>
2010-09-09 13:18 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 8:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08 9:28 ` Krishna Kumar2
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