From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: john.fastabend@gmail•com, daniel@iogearbox•net,
shm@cumulusnetworks•com, tgraf@suug•ch,
alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com, john.r.fastabend@intel•com,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, brouer@redhat•com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 0/6] XDP for virtio_net
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 23:16:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161208231211-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161208.141702.1346950420275854265.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:17:02PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:10:47 -0800
>
> > This implements virtio_net for the mergeable buffers and big_packet
> > modes. I tested this with vhost_net running on qemu and did not see
> > any issues. For testing num_buf > 1 I added a hack to vhost driver
> > to only but 100 bytes per buffer.
> ...
>
> So where are we with this?
>
> I'm not too thrilled with the idea of making XDP_TX optional or
> something like that. If someone enables XDP, there is a tradeoff.
The issue is inability of XDP TX to share xmit queues with net stack.
I'm guessing virtio is not the only card that has a limited
number of queues, is it? Is it really so hard to lock the queue
and check it's running? Could be optional in case resources are there
...
--
MST
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-08 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-07 20:10 [net-next PATCH v5 0/6] XDP for virtio_net John Fastabend
2016-12-07 20:11 ` [net-next PATCH v5 1/6] net: virtio dynamically disable/enable LRO John Fastabend
2016-12-08 21:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-09 0:04 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-09 3:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-14 13:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-14 17:01 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-15 16:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-07 20:11 ` [net-next PATCH v5 2/6] net: xdp: add invalid buffer warning John Fastabend
2016-12-07 20:11 ` [net-next PATCH v5 3/6] virtio_net: Add XDP support John Fastabend
2016-12-08 4:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 5:14 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-08 5:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-07 20:12 ` [net-next PATCH v5 4/6] virtio_net: add dedicated XDP transmit queues John Fastabend
2016-12-08 5:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 17:10 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-07 20:12 ` [net-next PATCH v5 5/6] virtio_net: add XDP_TX support John Fastabend
2016-12-08 6:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 18:18 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-08 21:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 21:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 21:25 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-08 21:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 21:51 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-07 20:13 ` [net-next PATCH v5 6/6] virtio_net: xdp, add slowpath case for non contiguous buffers John Fastabend
2016-12-08 19:17 ` [net-next PATCH v5 0/6] XDP for virtio_net David Miller
2016-12-08 19:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-12-08 20:46 ` John Fastabend
2016-12-08 20:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 21:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-08 21:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-12-08 22:16 ` David Miller
2016-12-09 3:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-13 8:46 ` XDP_DROP and XDP_TX (Was: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 0/6] XDP for virtio_net) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-12-08 21:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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