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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support
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@redhat.com>

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.


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