From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: virtio_net with RSS?
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:46:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A10698A.50004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0199E0D51A61344794750DC57738F58E66BC9810CF@GVW1118EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Fischer, Anna wrote:
> Are there any plans to enhance virtio_net with receive-side scaling capabilities, so that an SMP guest OS can balance its network processing load more equally across multiple CPUs?
>
Yes, the MSI-X patches are the first steps towards this. We will enable
each queue to have its own interrupt; then we can have a queue pair for
each vcpu.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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2009-05-15 0:13 virtio_net with RSS? Fischer, Anna
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