Re: [Xen-devel] netfront/netback multiqueue exhausting grants

[Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/22/2016 07:02 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 22.01.16 at 11:40, <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 01/22/2016 03:53 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 22.01.16 at 04:36, <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> By the way, do you think it's possible to make grant table support bigger 
>>>> page e.g 64K?
>>>> One grant-ref per 64KB instead of 4KB, this should able to reduce the 
>>>> grant 
>>>> entry consumption significantly.
>>>
>>> How would that work with an underlying page size of 4k, and pages
>>> potentially being non-contiguous in machine address space? Besides
>>> that the grant table hypercall interface isn't prepared to support
>>> 64k page size, due to its use of uint16_t for the length of copy ops.
>>
>> Right, and I mean whether we should consider address all the place as your 
>> mentioned.
> 
> Just from an abstract perspective: How would you envision to avoid
> machine address discontiguity? Or would you want to limit such an

E.g Reserve a page pool with continuous 64KB pages, or make grant-map support 
huge page(2MB)?
To be honest, I haven't think much about the detail.

Do you think that's unlikely to implement?
If yes, we have to limit the queue numbers, VM numbers and vdisk/vif numbers in 
a proper way
to make sure the guests won't enter grant-exhausted state.

> improvement to only HVM/PVH/HVMlite guests?
> 
> Jan
> 

-- 
Regards,
-Bob

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