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Re: [net-next rfc v7 3/3] virtio-net: change the number of queues through ethtool

From: Jason Wang <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-03 06:09:44
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On Sunday, December 02, 2012 06:09:06 PM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 06:16:00PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
quoted
This patch implement the {set|get}_channels method of ethool to allow user
to change the number of queues dymaically when the device is running.
This would let the user to configure it on demand.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
---

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index bcaa6e5..f08ec2a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1578,10 +1578,51 @@ static struct virtio_driver virtio_net_driver = {

 #endif
 };

+/* TODO: Eliminate OOO packets during switching */
+static int virtnet_set_channels(struct net_device *dev,
+				struct ethtool_channels *channels)
+{
+	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
+	u16 queue_pairs = channels->combined_count;
+
+	/* We don't support separate rx/tx channels.
+	 * We don't allow setting 'other' channels.
+	 */
+	if (channels->rx_count || channels->tx_count || channels->other_count)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* Only two modes were support currently */
+	if (queue_pairs != vi->max_queue_pairs && queue_pairs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
Why the limitation?
Not sure the value bettwen 1 and max_queue_pairs is useful. But anyway, I can 
remove this limitation.
Also how does userspace discover what the legal values are?
Userspace only check whether the value is greater than max_queue_pairs.
quoted
+	vi->curr_queue_pairs = queue_pairs;
+	BUG_ON(virtnet_set_queues(vi));
+
+	netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(dev, vi->curr_queue_pairs);
+	netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(dev, vi->curr_queue_pairs);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void virtnet_get_channels(struct net_device *dev,
+				 struct ethtool_channels *channels)
+{
+	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+	channels->combined_count = vi->curr_queue_pairs;
+	channels->max_combined = vi->max_queue_pairs;
+	channels->max_other = 0;
+	channels->rx_count = 0;
+	channels->tx_count = 0;
+	channels->other_count = 0;
+}
+

 static const struct ethtool_ops virtnet_ethtool_ops = {
 
 	.get_drvinfo = virtnet_get_drvinfo,
 	.get_link = ethtool_op_get_link,
 	.get_ringparam = virtnet_get_ringparam,

+	.set_channels = virtnet_set_channels,
+	.get_channels = virtnet_get_channels,

 };
 
 static int __init init(void)
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