From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, kubakici@wp.pl, jasowang@redhat.com,
loseweigh@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v6 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the bypass framework
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 04:21:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180411041901-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180410142608.50f15b45@xeon-e3>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:26:08PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:59:50 -0700
> Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic
> > bypass infrastructure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
> > ---
>
> Thanks for doing this. Your current version has couple show stopper
> issues.
>
> First, the slave device is instantly taking over the slave.
> This doesn't allow udev/systemd to do its device rename of the slave
> device. Netvsc uses a delayed work to workaround this.
>
> Secondly, the select queue needs to call queue selection in VF.
> The bonding/teaming logic doesn't work well for UDP flows.
> Commit b3bf5666a510 ("hv_netvsc: defer queue selection to VF")
> fixed this performance problem.
>
> Lastly, more indirection is bad in current climate.
Well right now netvsc does an indirect call to the PT device,
does it not? If you really want max performance when PT
is in use you need to do the reverse and have PT forward to netvsc.
> I am not completely adverse to this but it needs to be fast, simple
> and completely transparent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-11 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 18:59 [RFC PATCH net-next v6 0/4] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-10 18:59 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 1/4] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP feature bit Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-10 18:59 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 2/4] net: Introduce generic bypass module Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-11 15:51 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-11 19:13 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-18 9:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-18 18:43 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-18 19:13 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-18 19:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-18 20:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-18 22:46 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-19 6:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-19 4:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-19 7:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-10 18:59 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 3/4] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-10 18:59 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the bypass framework Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-10 21:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-10 22:56 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-10 23:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-10 23:44 ` Siwei Liu
2018-04-10 23:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-11 7:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-11 1:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-04-11 7:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-02-22 1:14 ` net_failover slave udev renaming (was Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v6 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the bypass framework) Siwei Liu
2019-02-22 1:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-22 3:33 ` [virtio-dev] " si-wei liu
[not found] ` <91d4cbb1-be7a-b53c-6b2a-99bef07e7c53@intel.com>
2019-02-22 7:55 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-22 12:58 ` Rob Miller
2019-02-22 15:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-26 0:58 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-26 1:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-26 2:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-27 0:49 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-26 2:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-27 0:17 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-27 21:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-27 22:30 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-27 22:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-27 23:34 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-27 23:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 0:00 ` Liran Alon
2019-02-28 0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-28 0:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 0:38 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-28 0:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 0:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-28 1:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 1:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-28 4:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 18:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-28 19:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 19:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-28 20:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-28 23:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 0:20 ` Siwei Liu
2019-03-01 1:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-02 0:30 ` Siwei Liu
2019-02-28 9:32 ` si-wei liu
2019-02-28 14:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-01 1:30 ` si-wei liu
2019-03-01 13:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-01 20:55 ` si-wei liu
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