Re: [net-next RFC 0/8] multiqueue API support for macvtap

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu May 23 2013 - 07:53:13 EST


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:12:25AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> This series implements a fully tuntap compatiable API which could be used by
> userspace to manage multi macvtap queues. The main parts is to add TUNSETQUEUE
> ioctl support for macvtap.
>
> Patch 1 - 4 was some tuntap compatibility and misc cleanups.
> Patch 5 removes the linear search in macvtap by reshuffling the macvtaps array
> each time a queue is removed. After this, we could store both enabled and
> disabled queues in the same array without introducing extra data structure.
> Patch 6 let TUNSETIFF can create multiqueue device, nothing but some check were
> added.
> Patch 7 implement TUNSETQUEUE ioctl
> Patch 8 reports IFF_MULTI_QUEUE to userspace to notify the userspace that the
> multiqueue API is completed.
>
> Flow caches implememtation were missed in this version, since I am doing rework
> on the tuntap flow caches. Have some some stress test with both netperf and
> pktgen.
>
> Please review, thanks.

Overall looks good. Sent some comments on specific patches.

Thanks!

> Jason Wang (8):
> macvlan: switch to use IS_ENABLED()
> macvtap: return -EBADFD when TUNGETIFF fails
> macvtap: introduce macvtap_get_vlan()
> macvlan: reduce the max number of taps to 8
> macvtap: eliminate linear search
> macvtap: allow TUNSETIFF to create multiqueue device
> macvtap: add TUNSETQUEUE ioctl
> macvtap: enable multiqueue flag
>
> drivers/net/macvtap.c | 265 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> include/linux/if_macvlan.h | 11 ++-
> 2 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
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