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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat•com>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft•net, dgibson@redhat•com, vfalico@gmail•com,
	edumazet@google•com, vyasevic@redhat•com, hkchu@google•com,
	wuzhy@linux•vnet.ibm.com, xemul@parallels•com,
	therbert@google•com, bhutchings@solarflare•com, xii@google•com,
	stephen@networkplumber•org, jiri@resnulli•us,
	sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2 tuntap: Increase the number of queues in tun.
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:03:34 +0008	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417661734.16500.0@smtp.corp.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141203095210.GC9487@redhat.com>



On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat•com> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:49:37PM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
>>  Networking under kvm works best if we allocate a per-vCPU RX and TX
>>  queue in a virtual NIC. This requires a per-vCPU queue on the host 
>> side.
>>  
>>  It is now safe to increase the maximum number of queues.
>>  Preceding patche: 'net: allow large number of rx queues'
> 
> s/patche/patch/
> 
>>  made sure this won't cause failures due to high order memory
>>  allocations. Increase it to 256: this is the max number of vCPUs
>>  KVM supports.
>>  
>>  Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat•com>
>>  Reviewed-by: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat•com>
> 
> Hmm it's kind of nasty that each tun device is now using x16 memory.
> Maybe we should look at using a flex array instead, and removing the
> limitation altogether (e.g. make it INT_MAX)?

But this only happens when IFF_MULTIQUEUE were used.
And core has vmalloc() fallback.
So probably not a big issue?

> 
> 
> 
>>  ---
>>   drivers/net/tun.c | 9 +++++----
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>  
>>  diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>>  index e3fa65a..a19dc5f8 100644
>>  --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>>  +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>>  @@ -113,10 +113,11 @@ struct tap_filter {
>>   	unsigned char	addr[FLT_EXACT_COUNT][ETH_ALEN];
>>   };
>>   
>>  -/* DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RSS_QUEUES were chosen to let the rx/tx queues 
>> allocated for
>>  - * the netdevice to be fit in one page. So we can make sure the 
>> success of
>>  - * memory allocation. TODO: increase the limit. */
>>  -#define MAX_TAP_QUEUES DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RSS_QUEUES
>>  +/* MAX_TAP_QUEUES 256 is chosen to allow rx/tx queues to be equal
>>  + * to max number of vCPUS in guest. Also, we are making sure here
>>  + * queue memory allocation do not fail.
> 
> It's not queue memory allocation anymore, is it?
> I would say "
> This also helps the tfiles field fit in 4K, so the whole tun
> device only needs an order-1 allocation.
> "
> 
>>  + */
>>  +#define MAX_TAP_QUEUES 256
>>   #define MAX_TAP_FLOWS  4096
>>   
>>   #define TUN_FLOW_EXPIRE (3 * HZ)
>>  -- 
>>  1.8.3.1
>>  
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-03  7:19 [PATCH v3 net-net 0/2] Increase the limit of tuntap queues Pankaj Gupta
2014-12-03  7:19 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] net: allow large number of rx queues Pankaj Gupta
2014-12-03  9:42   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-04 10:45     ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-12-03  7:19 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2 tuntap: Increase the number of queues in tun Pankaj Gupta
2014-12-03  9:52   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-04  2:55     ` Jason Wang [this message]
2014-12-04 10:20       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-04 10:42         ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-12-05  7:35         ` Jason Wang
2014-12-10  7:56           ` Pankaj Gupta

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