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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, liuyongan@huawei.com,
	qinchuanyu@huawei.com, "Zhangjie (HZ)" <zhangjie14@huawei.com>,
	akong@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [QA-virtio]:Why vring size is limited to 1024?
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 12:15:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141008091547.GB3872@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5434EB0B.8010800@cloudius-systems.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:43:07AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> On 09/30/2014 12:33 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >a single descriptor might use all of
> >the virtqueue. In this case we wont to be able to pass the
> >descriptor directly to linux as a single iov, since
> >
> 
> You could separate maximum request scatter/gather list size from the
> virtqueue size.  They are totally unrelated - even now you can have a larger
> request by using indirect descriptors.

We could add a feature to have a smaller or larger S/G length limit.
Is this something useful?

-- 
MST

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30  8:36 [Qemu-devel] [QA-virtio]:Why vring size is limited to 1024? Zhangjie (HZ)
2014-09-30  9:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-08  7:17   ` Zhangjie (HZ)
2014-10-08  7:37     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-08  8:07       ` Zhangjie (HZ)
2014-10-08  9:13         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-08  7:43   ` Avi Kivity
2014-10-08  8:26     ` Zhangjie (HZ)
2014-10-08  9:15     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-10-08  9:51       ` Avi Kivity
2014-10-08 10:14         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-08 10:37           ` Avi Kivity
2014-10-08 10:55             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-08 10:59               ` Avi Kivity
2014-10-08 12:22                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-08 12:28                   ` Avi Kivity
2014-10-08 12:36                     ` Avi Kivity
2014-10-08 11:00               ` Avi Kivity

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