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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.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-17 19:46 UTC|newest]

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2009-05-15  0:13 virtio_net with RSS? Fischer, Anna
2009-05-17 19:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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