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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V5 net-next 4/5] xen-netfront: Add support for multiple queues



On 28/02/14 16:13, Wei Liu wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:04:32PM +0000, Andrew Bennieston wrote:
On 28/02/14 15:22, Wei Liu wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 02:33:06PM +0000, Andrew J. Bennieston wrote:
From: "Andrew J. Bennieston" <andrew.bennieston@xxxxxxxxxx>

Build on the refactoring of the previous patch to implement multiple
queues between xen-netfront and xen-netback.

Check XenStore for multi-queue support, and set up the rings and event
channels accordingly.

Write ring references and event channels to XenStore in a queue
hierarchy if appropriate, or flat when using only one queue.

Update the xennet_select_queue() function to choose the queue on which
to transmit a packet based on the skb hash result.

Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Bennieston <andrew.bennieston@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |  178 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
  1 file changed, 140 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 4f5a431..470d6ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
  #include <xen/interface/memory.h>
  #include <xen/interface/grant_table.h>

+/* Module parameters */
+unsigned int xennet_max_queues;
+module_param(xennet_max_queues, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(xennet_max_queues,
+               "Maximum number of queues per virtual interface");
+

Maybe I'm nit-picking here. But I think exposing xennet_max_queues as
sysfs knob in frontend v.s. xenvif_max_queues in backend doesn't look
very good to me -- userspace tools would need to query different knobs
in frontend and backend. I think it makes sense to use a unified name in
both frontend and backend.

You can either use xenvif_max_queues as backend does or even just
max_queues for both frontend and backend.
They already have to look in a different place, /sys/module/xen_netback
vs /sys/module/xen_netfront, so having a different param. name as well
isn't really a problem...


Cool. I think both frontend and backend use max_queues will be
sufficient and more concise, since the path in sysfs is quite
straightforward. Take netback as example, the existing parameter don't
have xenvif_ prefix.

Wei.

Ok, I've posted a V6 series which uses 'max_queues' as the module param for both, but retains the existing variable names within the code.

-Andrew

-Andrew


Wei.



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