Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: make the queue depth the max supportable by the hypervisor

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Mar 31 2014 - 00:36:00 EST


Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas
> <venkateshs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> And I rewrote it substantially, mainly to take
>>> VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC into account.
>>>
>>> As QEMU sets the vq size for PCI to 128, Venkatash's patch wouldn't
>>> have made a change. This version does (since QEMU also offers
>>> VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC.
>>
>> That divide-by-2 produced the same queue depth as the prior
>> computation in QEMU was deliberate -- but raising it to 128 seems
>> pretty reasonable.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Soft ping about this patch.

It's head of my virtio-next tree.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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