Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] macvlan: add multiqueue capability

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> macvlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.
>>
>> We can do that defining rtnl_link_ops method,
>> get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()
>>
>> This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
>> from lower device.
>>
>> macvlan_get_tx_queues() is a copy of vlan_get_tx_queues().
>>
>> Because macvlan_start_xmit() has to update netdev_queue
>> stats only (and not dev->stats), I chose to change
>> tx_errors/tx_aborted_errors accounting to tx_dropped,
>> since netdev_queue structure doesnt define tx_errors /
>> tx_aborted_errors.
> 
> The patch looks fine, but it just occured to me that this won't
> have any effect since both VLAN and macvlan use a tx_queue_len of 0,
> so they will by default have queueing disabled. In fact this
> will increase costs for the default case since we're now hashing
> every packet.

Good point !

We'll have to hash the packet later when hitting the lowerdevice,
which is multiqueue. No ?

Also, what's wrong with

ip link add link eth0 eth0.103 txqueuelen 100 type vlan id 103

;)