Re: Multi-queue netfront?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:50:48AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> The latest XenServer includes multi-queue support for paravirtualised
> network interfaces:
> 
> http://xenserver.org/blog.html?view=entry&id=120
> 
> "Since frontend changes are needed, the version of the guest's netfront
> driver matters. Although dom0 is geared up to support multi-queue, guests
> with old versions of netfront that lack multi-queue support are limited to
> single Transmit and Receive rings."
> 
> Is xennet(4) likely to get support added?

We first need to have (usefull) multi-queue support in the network stack.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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