Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-15 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:36:44 +, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 16:01 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:02:04 +, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com wrote: Most multi-queue controllers could support a kind of hash-based

Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 16:01 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:02:04 +, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com wrote: Solarflare controllers (sfc driver) have 8192 perfect filters for TCP/IPv4 and UDP/IPv4 which can be used for flow steering. (The filters are

Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-09 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:02:04 +, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com wrote: Solarflare controllers (sfc driver) have 8192 perfect filters for TCP/IPv4 and UDP/IPv4 which can be used for flow steering. (The filters are organised as a hash table, but matched based on 5-tuples.) I

Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-08 Thread Jason Wang
On 12/08/2011 01:02 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 19:31 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: On 12/07/2011 03:30 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:58:37 +0800, Jason Wangjasow...@redhat.com wrote: multiple queue virtio-net: flow steering through host/guest cooperation

Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-07 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:58:37 +0800, Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com wrote: multiple queue virtio-net: flow steering through host/guest cooperation Hello all: This is a rough series adds the guest/host cooperation of flow steering support based on Krish Kumar's multiple queue virtio-net

Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-07 Thread Jason Wang
On 12/07/2011 03:30 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:58:37 +0800, Jason Wangjasow...@redhat.com wrote: multiple queue virtio-net: flow steering through host/guest cooperation Hello all: This is a rough series adds the guest/host cooperation of flow steering support based on

Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 19:31 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: On 12/07/2011 03:30 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:58:37 +0800, Jason Wangjasow...@redhat.com wrote: multiple queue virtio-net: flow steering through host/guest cooperation Hello all: This is a rough series adds

[net-next RFC PATCH 0/5] Series short description

2011-12-05 Thread Jason Wang
multiple queue virtio-net: flow steering through host/guest cooperation Hello all: This is a rough series adds the guest/host cooperation of flow steering support based on Krish Kumar's multiple queue virtio-net driver patch 3/3 (http://lwn.net/Articles/467283/). This idea is simple, the