On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 04:59:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > They really shouldn't - any NIC that takes forever to > > program will create issues in the networking stack. > > Unfortunately, it's not rare as the device/cvq could be implemented > via firmware or software.
Currently that mean one either has sane firmware with a scheduler that can meet deadlines, or loses ability to report errors back. > > But if they do they can always set this flag too. > > This may have false negatives and may confuse the management. > > Maybe we can extend the networking core to allow some device specific > configurations to be done with device specific lock without rtnl. For > example, split the set_channels to > > pre_set_channels > set_channels > post_set_channels > > The device specific part could be done in pre and post without a rtnl lock? > > Thanks Would the benefit be that errors can be reported to userspace then? Then maybe. I think you will have to show how this works for at least one card besides virtio. -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
