From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] ptr_ring: resize support
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:04:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160614140428.7fb2bd94@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160613235445-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:54:45 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> This adds ring resize support. Seems to be necessary as
> users such as tun allow userspace control over queue size.
>
> If resize is used, this costs us ability to peek at queue without
> consumer lock - should not be a big deal as peek and consumer are
> usually run on the same CPU.
>
> If ring is made bigger, ring contents is preserved. If ring is made
> smaller, extra pointers are passed to an optional destructor callback.
>
> Cleanup function also gains destructor callback such that
> all pointers in queue can be cleaned up.
>
> This changes some APIs but we don't have any users yet,
> so it won't break bisect.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-14 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1465851234-13558-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
2016-06-13 20:54 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointers Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-14 12:02 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-06-13 20:54 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] ptr_ring: ring test Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-13 20:54 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] skb_array: array based FIFO for skbs Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-14 12:03 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-06-13 20:54 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] ptr_ring: resize support Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-14 12:04 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2016-06-13 20:54 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] skb_array: " Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-14 12:21 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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