From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Bennieston Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V8 net-next 0/6] xen-net{back, front}: Multiple transmit and receive queues Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:18:31 +0100 Message-ID: <53739757.5060905@citrix.com> References: <1400075550-4580-1-git-send-email-andrew.bennieston@citrix.com> <526369072.20140514160923@eikelenboom.it> <20140514141347.GR6332@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , , , , To: Wei Liu , Sander Eikelenboom Return-path: Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:6603 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755426AbaENQSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2014 12:18:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140514141347.GR6332@zion.uk.xensource.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 14/05/14 15:13, Wei Liu wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:09:23PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: >> >> Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 3:52:24 PM, you wrote: >> >>> This patch series implements multiple transmit and receive queues (i.e. >>> multiple shared rings) for the xen virtual network interfaces. >> >>> The series is split up as follows: >>> - Patch 1 brings the 'grant_copy_op' array back into struct xenvif, in >>> preparation for multi-queue support. See the patch itself for more details. >>> - Patches 2 and 4 factor out the queue-specific data for netback and >>> netfront respectively, and modify the rest of the code to use these >>> as appropriate. >>> - Patches 3 and 5 introduce new XenStore keys to negotiate and use >>> multiple shared rings and event channels, and code to connect these >>> as appropriate. >>> - Patch 6 documents the XenStore keys required for the new feature >>> in include/xen/interface/io/netif.h >> >>> All other transmit and receive processing remains unchanged, i.e. there >>> is a kthread per queue and a NAPI context per queue. >> >>> The performance of these patches has been analysed in detail, with >>> results available at: >> >> >> >> Would it be possible to also put these somewhere in a tree (or branch of the >> xen-tree), so it is more easy to pull and test ? >> > > I cannot speak for Andrew. FWIW you can save this thread and use 'git > am' to apply them to 'net-next'. > > Wei. I don't currently have a public-facing git repo for this. If you'd prefer I can send you the patches directly in a tarball, which you may be able to apply more easily than grabbing them from email threads? - Andrew > >> -- >> Sander >> >>> -- >>> Andrew J. Bennieston >> >>