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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2017-01-10 14:32:51 +0100
committerBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2017-01-29 18:48:27 -0500
commit034702a64a6692a8d5d0d9630064a014fc633728 (patch)
treef7f0eb533a330e3ed8dddb9291caeb8967203d94 /drivers
parent566cf877a1fcb6d6dc0126b076aad062054c2637 (diff)
xen/netfront: set default upper limit of tx/rx queues to 8
The default for the number of tx/rx queues of one interface is the number of vcpus of the system today. As each queue pair reserves 512 grant pages this default consumes a ridiculous number of grants for large guests. Limit the queue number to 8 as default. This value can be modified via a module parameter if required. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netfront.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 8315fe73ecd0..7ce5d2f96b51 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <xen/interface/grant_table.h>
/* Module parameters */
+#define MAX_QUEUES_DEFAULT 8
static unsigned int xennet_max_queues;
module_param_named(max_queues, xennet_max_queues, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_queues,
@@ -2164,11 +2165,12 @@ static int __init netif_init(void)
pr_info("Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver\n");
- /* Allow as many queues as there are CPUs if user has not
+ /* Allow as many queues as there are CPUs inut max. 8 if user has not
* specified a value.
*/
if (xennet_max_queues == 0)
- xennet_max_queues = num_online_cpus();
+ xennet_max_queues = min_t(unsigned int, MAX_QUEUES_DEFAULT,
+ num_online_cpus());
return xenbus_register_frontend(&netfront_driver);
}