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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Increased memory usage with scsi-mq
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 18:50:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b96a6c9-c5af-c50d-ba02-59863d1ee5f2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170809160111.GC3141@lst.de>

On 09/08/2017 18:01, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:07:48PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> can_queue should depend on the virtqueue size, which unfortunately can
>> vary for each virtio-scsi device in theory.  The virtqueue size is
>> retrieved by drivers/virtio prior to calling vring_create_virtqueue, and
>> in QEMU it is the second argument to virtio_add_queue.
> 
> Why is that unfortunate?  We don't even have to set can_queue in
> the host template, we can dynamically set it on per-host basis.

Ah, cool, I thought allocations based on can_queue happened already in
scsi_host_alloc, but they happen at scsi_add_host time.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-09 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-04 21:00 Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-05  8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-05  9:27   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-05 13:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-05 15:51       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-07 12:11         ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-07 12:27           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-07 13:07             ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-09 16:01               ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-09 16:50                 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-08-10 12:22                   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-10 12:53                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-10 14:16                       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-10 14:30                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-10 15:40                           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-10 16:04                             ` Paolo Bonzini

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