Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu number

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Jin [mailto:joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 October 2015 10:05
> To: Paul Durrant; Wei Liu; Ian Campbell; Boris Ostrovsky; Konrad Rzeszutek
> Wilk; David S. Miller
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu
> number
> 
> On 10/23/2015 04:47 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: netdev-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netdev-
> >> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Jin
> >> Sent: 23 October 2015 08:54
> >> To: Wei Liu; Ian Campbell; Boris Ostrovsky; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; David
> S.
> >> Miller
> >> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] limit xen vnic max queues number to online cpu
> >> number
> >>
> >> Currently xen vnic allowed to create lots of queues by set module param
> >> max_queues(both netback and netfront), when queues number larger
> than
> >> cpu number, it does not help for performance but need more cpu time.
> >>
> >
> > But it's an override, so why would you want to limit it? The parameter
> should not be set in the common case.
> 
> Always we can not stop people use it because we provided it :)
> 

Indeed, and I believe it was provided largely for test purposes... to force the 
limit to whatever the admin wants.

> If queues number is larger than cpu number, with heavy network load,
> cpus have to take more time for interrupt, this lead others less
> chance to be scheduled.
> Imaging dom0 have 64 cpus, and assigned 4 vcpus to the guest, if
> set max_queues to 64 on guest, it will consumed more cpu times
> and bandwidth on backend, I think this is not we expected?
> 

I think that would be entirely expected.

  Paul

> Thanks,
> Joe
> >
> >   Paul
> >
> >> This patchset limit netback and netfront max queues number to online
> >> cpus number.
> >>
> >> Joe Jin (2):
> >>   xen-netback: limit xen vif max queues number to online cpus
> >>   xen-front: limit vnic max_queues number to online cpus
> >>
> >>  drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> ---
> >>  drivers/net/xen-netfront.c        |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
> >>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >>
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