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List:       netbsd-port-xen
Subject:    Re: Multi-queue netfront?
From:       Manuel Bouyer <bouyer () antioche ! eu ! org>
Date:       2016-06-24 16:23:19
Message-ID: 20160624162319.GA27141 () asim ! lip6 ! fr
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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>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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