On 06/14/2015 04:42 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 07:00:28PM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
>> Macvtap should be compatible with tuntap for maximum number
>> of queues. '1059590254fa9dce9cafc4f07d1103dbec415e76' removes
>> the limitation and increases number of queues in tuntap.
>> Now, Its safe to increase number of queues in Macvtap as well.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagu...@redhat.com>
> It's a good idea, but this might be a problem:
>
> static void macvtap_del_queues(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev);
> struct macvtap_queue *q, *tmp, *qlist[MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES];
>
> ...
> }
>
> by itself, this will use 2K on stack, which seems too much.
>
> You need to rework this function to use a linked list + list_move
> instead of an array + list_del_init.
Looks like even simpler, we can just do sock_put() inside
list_for_each_entry_safe() loop.
>> ---
>> include/linux/if_macvlan.h | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
>> index 6f6929e..a4ccc31 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct macvtap_queue;
>> * Maximum times a macvtap device can be opened. This can be used to
>> * configure the number of receive queue, e.g. for multiqueue virtio.
>> */
>> -#define MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES 16
>> +#define MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES 256
>>
>> #define MACVLAN_MC_FILTER_BITS 8
>> #define MACVLAN_MC_FILTER_SZ (1 << MACVLAN_MC_FILTER_BITS)
>> --
>> 1.7.1
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