linux/include
Jason Wang 986a4f4d45 virtio_net: multiqueue support
This patch adds the multiqueue (VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ) support to virtio_net
driver. VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ capable device could allow the driver to do packet
transmission and reception through multiple queue pairs and does the packet
steering to get better performance. By default, one one queue pair is used, user
could change the number of queue pairs by ethtool in the next patch.

When multiple queue pairs is used and the number of queue pairs is equal to the
number of vcpus. Driver does the following optimizations to implement per-cpu
virt queue pairs:

- select the txq based on the smp processor id.
- smp affinity hint to the cpu that owns the queue pairs.

This could be used with the flow steering support of the device to guarantee the
packets of a single flow is handled by the same cpu.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-09 00:30:55 -05:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-10-08 07:14:06 +09:00
asm-generic UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files 2012-10-17 12:31:15 +01:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
drm drm/radeon: add new SI pci id 2012-11-21 18:37:38 -05:00
keys KEYS: Asymmetric key pluggable data parsers 2012-10-08 13:50:13 +10:30
linux net: Add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulation 2012-12-09 00:20:28 -05:00
math-emu
media [media] adv7604: Replace prim_mode by mode 2012-11-21 17:43:49 -02:00
memory
misc
net sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list 2012-12-07 14:15:04 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma infiniband: pass rdma_cm module to netlink_dump_start 2012-10-07 00:30:56 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME 2012-11-13 22:45:42 -08:00
sound ALSA: Add a reference counter to card instance 2012-10-30 11:07:10 +01:00
target
trace Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" 2012-11-26 17:41:24 -08:00
uapi virtio_net: multiqueue support 2012-12-09 00:30:55 -05:00
video fbdev updates for 3.7 2012-10-12 10:21:02 +09:00
xen Bug-fixes: 2012-11-10 06:56:21 +01:00
Kbuild UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files 2012-10-17 12:31:15 +01:00