> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchi...@solarflare.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:46 PM > To: Haiyang Zhang > Cc: da...@davemloft.net; net...@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan; > o...@aepfle.de; jasow...@redhat.com; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for Virtual Receive Side > Scaling (vRSS) > > On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:21 -0800, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > This feature allows multiple channels to be used by each virtual NIC. > > It is available on Hyper-V host 2012 R2. > > } else if (ret == -EAGAIN) { > > - netif_stop_queue(ndev); > > + netif_tx_stop_all_queues(ndev); > > if (atomic_read(&net_device->num_outstanding_sends) < 1) { > > - netif_wake_queue(ndev); > > + netif_tx_wake_all_queues(ndev); > > ret = -ENOSPC; > > } > > } else { > > This doesn't makes any sense to me. How can you safely share the same > channels between all TX queues? > > I think you need to associate TX queues and channels 1-1. If you are > required to > map packets to TX queues using the Toeplitz hash, you should implement > ndo_select_queue and do the mapping there. Then in > netvsc_send() you would use the queue number from the skb to find which > channel to use and which queue may need to be stopped/woken. > > [...] > > --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c > > +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c > [...] > > +/* Toeplitz hash function > > + * data: network byte order > > + * return: host byte order > > + */ > > This looks incredibly slow. I've seen software implementations that are > likely to > be more efficient, e.g. > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/284612/> > > [...] > > int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device *dev, > > return ret; > > } > > memcpy(net->dev_addr, device_info.mac_adr, ETH_ALEN); > > + nvdev = hv_get_drvdata(dev); > > + rtnl_lock(); > > + netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(net, nvdev->num_chn); > > + netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(net, nvdev->num_chn); > [...] > > These functions can fail if called after registering the net device, so you > should > either call them with the final values earlier or handle failure here. > > Also, I notice that dev_addr is only set after registering; that should be > fixed. >
Thank you for the suggestions! I will re-write the send queue selection, enhance the hash calculation, also fix the initialization sequence. Thanks, - Haiyang _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel