Re: [net-next RFC V5 5/5] virtio_net: support negotiating the number of queues through ctrl vq

From
Jason Wang <hidden>
Date
2012-07-06 03:18:11
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Sasha Levin, 2012-07-05
On 07/05/2012 08:51 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 18:29 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
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@@ -1387,6 +1404,10 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
         if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ))
                 vi->has_cvq = true;

+       /* Use single tx/rx queue pair as default */
+       vi->num_queue_pairs = 1;
+       vi->total_queue_pairs = num_queue_pairs;
The code is using this "default" even if the amount of queue pairs it
wants was specified during initialization. This basically limits any
device to use 1 pair when starting up.
Yes, currently the virtio-net driver would use 1 txq/txq by default since multiqueue may not outperform in all kinds of workload. So it's better to keep it as default and let user enable multiqueue by ethtool -L.
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