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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: krkumar2@in.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	bhutchings@solarflare.com, jwhan@filewood.snu.ac.kr,
	shiyer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] Multiqueue support in virtio-net
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:13:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121207151330.3cd111a4@samsung-9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121207.153556.989159003987459765.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:35:56 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Date: Sat,  8 Dec 2012 01:04:54 +0800
> 
> > This series is an update version (hope the final version) of multiqueue
> > (VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ) support in virtio-net driver. All previous comments were
> > addressed, the work were based on Krishna Kumar's work to let virtio-net use
> > multiple rx/tx queues to do the packets reception and transmission. Performance
> > test show the aggregate latency were increased greately but may get some
> > regression in small packet transmission. Due to this, multiqueue were disabled
> > by default. If user want to benefit form the multiqueue, ethtool -L could be
> > used to enable the feature.
> > 
> > Please review and comments.
> > 
> > A protype implementation of qemu-kvm support could by found in
> > git://github.com/jasowang/qemu-kvm-mq.git. To start a guest with two queues, you
> > could specify the queues parameters to both tap and virtio-net like:
> > 
> > ./qemu-kvm -netdev tap,queues=2,... -device virtio-net-pci,queues=2,...
> > 
> > then enable the multiqueue through ethtool by:
> > 
> > ethtool -L eth0 combined 2
> 
> It seems like most, if not all, of the feedback given for this series
> has been addressed by Jason.
> 
> Can I get some ACKs?

Other than the minor style nit in the first patch, I see no issues.
This is really needed by Virtual Routers.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-07 17:04 [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] Multiqueue support in virtio-net Jason Wang
2012-12-07 17:04 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/3] virtio-net: separate fields of sending/receiving queue from virtnet_info Jason Wang
2012-12-07 23:11   ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-07 17:04 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/3] virtio_net: multiqueue support Jason Wang
2012-12-07 17:04 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] virtio-net: support changing the number of queue pairs through ethtool Jason Wang
2012-12-07 20:35 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] Multiqueue support in virtio-net David Miller
2012-12-07 23:13   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-12-09  5:32 ` David Miller

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