On 08/25/2015 07:30 AM, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 08/25/2015 06:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 04:33:12PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >>>> For macvlan, switch to use IFF_NO_QUEUE instead of tx_queue_len = 0. >>>> >>>> For macvtap, after commit 6acf54f1cf0a6747bac9fea26f34cfc5a9029523 >>>> ("macvtap: Add support of packet capture on macvtap >>>> device."). Multiqueue macvtap suffers from single qdisc lock >>>> contention. This is because macvtap claims a non zero tx_queue_len and >>>> it reuses this value as it socket receive queue size.Thanks to >>>> IFF_NO_QUEUE, we can remove the lock contention without breaking >>>> existing socket receive queue length logic. >>>> >>>> Cc: Patrick McHardy <ka...@trash.net> >>>> Cc: Vladislav Yasevich <vyase...@redhat.com> >>>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> >> Seems to make sense. Give me a day or two to get over the jet lag >> (and get out from under the pile of mail accumulated while I was traveling), >> I'll review properly and ack. >> > > A note on this patch: only default qdisc were removed but we don't lose > the ability to attach a qdisc to macvtap (though it may cause lock > contention on multiqueue case). >
Wouldn't that lock contention be solved if we really had multiple queues for multi-queue macvtaps? -vlad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html