On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 06:55:35AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote: > Hi Michael & all, > > Michael, you made a presentation about the virto 1.1's new features in KVM > Forum last week. > That's wonderful! > > And I'd like to know can we increase vring size over 1024, such as 4096 or > 8192? > > My colleage had asked the same question in 2014, but she didn't get a > definite answare, > So, I want to rewake up the dissusstion about this. Becase for the > virtio-crypto device, > I also need to increase the vring size to get better performance and > thoughput, but the Qemu > side limit the thought as VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE is 1024. > > [QA-virtio]:Why vring size is limited to 1024? > http://qemu.11.n7.nabble.com/QA-virtio-Why-vring-size-is-limited-to-1024-td292450.html > > Avi Kivity said that google cloud exposed the vring size to 16k. > > Regards, > -Gonglei
Fundamentally, the reason is that the ring size currently also sets the max s/g list length, and linux hosts can't support bigger lists. We should fix that in 1.1. -- MST
