From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"annie.li@oracle.com" <annie.li@oracle.com>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/8] netback: don't bind kthread to cpu
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 08:56:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130305135649.GA2589@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362490210.4748.23.camel@zion.uk.xensource.com>
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:30:10PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 20:51 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:00:02PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > The initialization process makes an assumption that the online cpus are
> > > numbered from 0 to xen_netbk_group_nr-1, which is not always true.
> >
> > And xen_netbk_group_nr is num_online_cpus()?
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> > So under what conditions does this change? Is this when the CPU hotplug
> > is involved and the CPUs go offline? In which case should there be a
>
> Yes, the hotplug path.
>
> > CPU hotplug notifier to re-bind the workers are appropiate?
?
Can't that option be explored?
> >
> > >
> > > As we only need a pool of worker threads, simply don't bind them to specific
> > > cpus.
> >
> > OK. Is there another method of doing this? Are there patches to make the thread
> > try to be vCPU->guest affinite?
> >
>
> No, not at the moment.
>
>
> Wei.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-05 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-15 16:00 [PATCH 0/8] Bugfix and mechanical works for Xen network driver Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/8] netback: don't bind kthread to cpu Wei Liu
2013-03-04 20:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 13:30 ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 13:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-03-05 14:04 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2013-03-05 14:42 ` David Vrabel
2013-03-05 15:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/8] netback: add module unload function Wei Liu
2013-03-04 20:55 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-04 20:58 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-03-05 13:30 ` Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-03-05 13:30 ` Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/8] netback: get/put module along with vif connect/disconnect Wei Liu
2013-03-04 20:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 10:02 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-03-05 13:30 ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 14:07 ` David Vrabel
2013-03-05 14:44 ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 15:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 4/8] xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-02-15 16:33 ` Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:59 ` Jan Beulich
2013-02-15 17:01 ` Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 10:25 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 5/8] netback: multi-page ring support Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:00 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 10:41 ` David Vrabel
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 6/8] netfront: " Wei Liu
2013-02-26 6:52 ` ANNIE LI
2013-02-26 12:35 ` Wei Liu
2013-02-27 7:39 ` ANNIE LI
2013-02-27 15:49 ` Wei Liu
2013-02-28 5:19 ` ANNIE LI
2013-02-28 11:02 ` Wei Liu
2013-02-28 12:55 ` annie li
2013-03-04 21:16 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 7/8] netback: split event channels support Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:22 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] netfront: " Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-26 3:07 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Bugfix and mechanical works for Xen network driver ANNIE LI
2013-02-26 11:33 ` Wei Liu
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