From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:10:02 +0200
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:35:52AM -0500, David Miller wrote: >> From: Krishna Kumar2 <krkum...@in.ibm.com> >> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:39:11 +0530 >> >> > Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> wrote on 11/25/2011 08:51:57 AM: >> >> >> >> My description is not clear again :( >> >> I mean the same vhost thead: >> >> >> >> vhost thread #0 transmits packets of flow A on processor M >> >> ... >> >> vhost thread #0 move to another process N and start to transmit packets >> >> of flow A >> > >> > Thanks for clarifying. Yes, binding vhosts to CPU's >> > makes the incoming packet go to the same vhost each >> > time. BTW, are you doing any binding and/or irqbalance >> > when you run your tests? I am not running either at >> > this time, but thought both might be useful. >> >> So are we going with this patch or are we saying that vhost binding >> is a requirement? > > OK we didn't come to a conclusion so I would be inclined > to merge this patch as is for 3.2, and revisit later. > One question though: do these changes affect userspace > in any way? For example, will this commit us to > ensure that a single flow gets a unique hash even > for strange configurations that transmit the same flow > from multiple cpus? Once you sort this out, reply with an Acked-by: for me, thanks. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
