On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:26:08PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:59:50 -0700
>> Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic
>> > bypass infrastructure.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>>
>> Thanks for doing this. Your current version has couple show stopper
>> issues.
>>
>> First, the slave device is instantly taking over the slave.
>> This doesn't allow udev/systemd to do its device rename of the slave
>> device. Netvsc uses a delayed work to workaround this.
>
> Interesting. Does this mean udev must act within a specific time window
> then?
Sighs, lots of hacks. Why propgating this from driver to a common
module. We really need a clean solution.
-Siwei
>
>> Secondly, the select queue needs to call queue selection in VF.
>> The bonding/teaming logic doesn't work well for UDP flows.
>> Commit b3bf5666a510 ("hv_netvsc: defer queue selection to VF")
>> fixed this performance problem.
>>
>> Lastly, more indirection is bad in current climate.
>>
>> I am not completely adverse to this but it needs to be fast, simple
>> and completely transparent.
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