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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle•com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix•com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists•xen.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	ian.campbell@citrix•com, annie.li@oracle•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] netback: don't bind kthread to cpu
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:51:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130304205154.GB16762@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360944010-15336-2-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com>

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:00:02PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> The initialization process makes an assumption that the online cpus are
> numbered from 0 to xen_netbk_group_nr-1,  which is not always true.

And xen_netbk_group_nr is num_online_cpus()?

So under what conditions does this change? Is this when the CPU hotplug
is involved and the CPUs go offline? In which case should there be a
CPU hotplug notifier to re-bind the workers are appropiate?

> 
> As we only need a pool of worker threads, simply don't bind them to specific
> cpus.

OK. Is there another method of doing this? Are there patches to make the thread
try to be vCPU->guest affinite?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix•com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> index 3ae49b1..db8d45a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> @@ -1729,8 +1729,6 @@ static int __init netback_init(void)
>  			goto failed_init;
>  		}
>  
> -		kthread_bind(netbk->task, group);
> -
>  		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&netbk->net_schedule_list);
>  
>  		spin_lock_init(&netbk->net_schedule_list_lock);
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-15 16:00 [PATCH 0/8] Bugfix and mechanical works for Xen network driver Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/8] netback: don't bind kthread to cpu Wei Liu
2013-03-04 20:51   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-03-05 13:30     ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 13:56       ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 14:04         ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 14:42         ` David Vrabel
2013-03-05 15:52           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/8] netback: add module unload function Wei Liu
2013-03-04 20:55   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-04 20:58     ` Andrew Cooper
2013-03-05 13:30     ` Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:58   ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-03-05 13:30     ` Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/8] netback: get/put module along with vif connect/disconnect Wei Liu
2013-03-04 20:56   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 10:02   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-03-05 13:30     ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 14:07       ` David Vrabel
2013-03-05 14:44         ` Wei Liu
2013-03-05 15:53         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 4/8] xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:17   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2013-02-15 16:33     ` Wei Liu
2013-02-15 16:59       ` Jan Beulich
2013-02-15 17:01         ` Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:12   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 10:25   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 5/8] netback: multi-page ring support Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:00   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-05 10:41   ` David Vrabel
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 6/8] netfront: " Wei Liu
2013-02-26  6:52   ` ANNIE LI
2013-02-26 12:35     ` Wei Liu
2013-02-27  7:39       ` ANNIE LI
2013-02-27 15:49         ` Wei Liu
2013-02-28  5:19           ` ANNIE LI
2013-02-28 11:02             ` Wei Liu
2013-02-28 12:55               ` annie li
2013-03-04 21:16   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 7/8] netback: split event channels support Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:22   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-15 16:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] netfront: " Wei Liu
2013-03-04 21:24   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-26  3:07 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Bugfix and mechanical works for Xen network driver ANNIE LI
2013-02-26 11:33   ` Wei Liu

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