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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: anthony@codemonkey.ws, davem@davemloft.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:04:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100913090415.GB29333@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF32429FD6.3F8CAEC5-ON6525779D.00169473-6525779D.0017A613@in.ibm.com>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:50:42AM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote on 09/12/2010 05:16:37 PM:
> 
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > 09/12/2010 05:16 PM
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:19:33PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> > > Unfortunately I need a
> > > constant in vhost for now.
> >
> > Maybe not even that: you create multiple vhost-net
> > devices so vhost-net in kernel does not care about these
> > either, right? So this can be just part of vhost_net.h
> > in qemu.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant.
> 
> I can remove all socks[] arrays/constants by pre-allocating
> sockets in vhost_setup_vqs. Then I can remove all "socks"
> parameters in vhost_net_stop, vhost_net_release and
> vhost_net_reset_owner.
> 
> Does this make sense?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - KK

Here's what I mean: each vhost device includes 1 TX
and 1 RX VQ. Instead of teaching vhost about multiqueue,
we could simply open /dev/vhost-net multiple times.
How many times would be up to qemu.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-08  7:28 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08  7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci Krishna Kumar
2010-09-09  3:49   ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-09  5:23     ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-09 12:14       ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-09 13:49         ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-10  3:33           ` Rusty Russell
2010-09-12 11:46           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13  4:20             ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-13  9:04               ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-09-13 15:59                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 16:30                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 17:00                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-15  5:35                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 17:40                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-15  5:40                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08  7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] Changes for virtio-net Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08  7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] Changes for vhost Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08  7:29 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] qemu changes Krishna Kumar
2010-09-08  7:47 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Implement multiqueue virtio-net Avi Kivity
2010-09-08  9:22   ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08  9:28     ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 10:17       ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 14:12         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-08 16:47           ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-09 10:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-09 13:19               ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08  8:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08  9:23   ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 10:48     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08 12:19       ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08 16:47   ` Krishna Kumar2
     [not found]   ` <OF70542242.6CAA236A-ON65257798.0044A4E0-65257798.005C0E7C@LocalDomain>
2010-09-09  9:45     ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-09 23:00       ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-09-10  5:19         ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-12 11:40       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13  4:12         ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-13 11:50           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 16:23             ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-15  5:33               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]     ` <OF8043B2B7.7048D739-ON65257799.0021A2EE-65257799.00356B3E@LocalDomain>
2010-09-09 13:18       ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-09-08  8:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-08  9:28   ` Krishna Kumar2

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