From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752304AbbALWF6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:05:58 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:54598 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751000AbbALWF4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:05:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:05:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20150112.170551.2256606651908771184.davem@davemloft.net> To: pagupta@redhat.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, 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 v5 net-net 0/2] Increase the limit of tuntap queues From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1421043089-30103-1-git-send-email-pagupta@redhat.com> References: <1421043089-30103-1-git-send-email-pagupta@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:05:55 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Pankaj Gupta Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:41:27 +0530 > 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. > Modern physical NICs have multiqueue support for large number of queues. > To scale vNIC to run multiple queues parallel to maximum number of vCPU's > we need to increase number of queues support in tuntap. Series applied, thanks for following up on this.