Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net

Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-08T14:12:50Z

On Wednesday 08 September 2010, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> > The new guest and qemu code work with old vhost-net, just with reduced
> > performance, yes?
>
> Yes, I have tested new guest/qemu with old vhost but using
> #numtxqs=1 (or not passing any arguments at all to qemu to
> enable MQ). Giving numtxqs > 1 fails with ENOBUFS in vhost,
> since vhost_net_set_backend in the unmodified vhost checks
> for boundary overflow.
>
> I have also tested running an unmodified guest with new
> vhost/qemu, but qemu should not specify numtxqs>1.

Can you live migrate a new guest from new-qemu/new-kernel
to old-qemu/old-kernel, new-qemu/old-kernel and old-qemu/new-kernel?
If not, do we need to support all those cases?

Arnd