From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: caleb.raitto@gmail.com, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Caleb Raitto <caraitto@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: force_napi_tx module param.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 01:46:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180725014410-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF=yD-J4kS5SiEum-d7SfY7wF+go746QMkoer49G+knVSXtVGg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 06:31:54PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 6:23 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 04:52:53PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > >From the above linked patch, I understand that there are yet
> > > other special cases in production, such as a hard cap on #tx queues to
> > > 32 regardless of number of vcpus.
> >
> > I don't think upstream kernels have this limit - we can
> > now use vmalloc for higher number of queues.
>
> Yes. that patch* mentioned it as a google compute engine imposed
> limit. It is exactly such cloud provider imposed rules that I'm
> concerned about working around in upstream drivers.
>
> * for reference, I mean https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/725249/
Yea. Why does GCE do it btw?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-23 23:11 [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: force_napi_tx module param Caleb Raitto
2018-07-24 0:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-07-24 1:23 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-24 10:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-24 14:01 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-24 18:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-24 20:52 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-24 22:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-24 22:31 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-24 22:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-07-25 0:02 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-25 0:17 ` Jon Olson
2018-07-30 6:06 ` Jason Wang
2018-08-01 22:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-28 19:57 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-08-29 7:56 ` Jason Wang
2018-08-29 13:01 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-09-09 23:07 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-09-10 5:59 ` Jason Wang
2018-07-29 16:00 ` David Miller
2018-07-29 20:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-07-29 20:36 ` David Miller
2018-07-29 21:09 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-29 21:32 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-31 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-01 15:46 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-08-01 15:56 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-08-01 22:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-01 22:43 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-08-01 22:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-01 23:33 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-07-30 19:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-07-31 1:41 ` Jason Wang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20180725014410-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org \
--to=mst@redhat.com \
--cc=caleb.raitto@gmail.com \
--cc=caraitto@google.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=jasowang@redhat.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).