* Stephen Hemminger ([email protected]) wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:37:22 +0930 > Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Actually this framework can apply to traditional network adapters which > > > > have > > > > just one tx/rx queue pair. And applications using the same user/kernel > > > > interface > > > > can utilize this framework to send/receive network traffic directly > > > > thru a tx/rx > > > > queue pair in a network adapter. > > > > > > More importantly, when virtualizations is used with multi-queue NIC's the > virtio-net > NIC is a single CPU bottleneck. The virtio-net NIC should preserve the > parallelism (lock > free) using multiple receive/transmit queues. The number of queues should > equal the > number of CPUs.
Yup, multiqueue virtio is on todo list ;-) thanks, -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
