Hello everyone,
I was looking at Xen networking IO
architecture and I really don’t understand one thing. On Dom0 right after
booting up there are two netback kernel threads (netback/0 and netback/1). As I
have noticed, they both share the tasks related with scheduling the traffic for
all DomUs. Having two guest domains assigns each netback to a single domain
(from my observations). But having more guest domains makes them share these
two processes.
Can anyone tell me why there are exactly
two netback processes? What part of the Xen code is responsible for creating
them and if I can change configuration to have more of them?
There are also loop0, loop1.. processes but
they are created for each DomU created and as I can guess they are responsible
for connecting eth0 interface with vif interfaces.
The reason I ask this question is that I
was wondering if I can set priorities on each DomU network IO operations by
changing the scheduling policy on the driver domain.
My configuration is simple:
Domain 0 is also the driver domain. The
netback drivers are compiled into the kernel. I use Linux Gentoo and Xen 4.0.
Thanks in advance for any help and comments.
Best regards,
Blazej
