On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:54:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > This patch adds queue steering to virtio-scsi. When a target is sent > multiple requests, we always drive them to the same queue so that FIFO > processing order is kept. However, if a target was idle, we can choose > a queue arbitrarily. In this case the queue is chosen according to the > current VCPU, so the driver expects the number of request queues to be > equal to the number of VCPUs. This makes it easy and fast to select > the queue, and also lets the driver optimize the IRQ affinity for the > virtqueues (each virtqueue's affinity is set to the CPU that "owns" > the queue). > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> I guess an alternative is a per-target vq. Is the reason you avoid this that you expect more targets than cpus? If yes this is something you might want to mention in the log. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
