Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:03:23 +0200 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap |
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:39:08PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:55:07 +0800 > Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote: > > > What if use do want a qdisc and want to change the its queue length for > > tun/macvlan? And the the name tx_queue_length is misleading. For tun it > > may make sense since it was used in transmission path. For macvtap it > > was not. So maybe what we need is just a new ioctl for both tun/macvtap > > and a new feature flag. If user create the device with new feature flag, > > the socket receive queue length could be changed by ioctl instead of > > dev->tx_queue_length. If not, the old behaviour could be kept. > > The overloading of tx_queue_len in macvtap was the original design mistake. > Can't this just be undone and expose rx_queue_len as sysfs attribute?
Yes but we need to avoid breaking user-visible ABI. So I think we'll need to catch any access attempts and redirect them to the new rx_queue_len. I posted a patch like this using new ndo_set_tx_queue_len/ndo_get_tx_queue_len. Have you seen it? What do you think?
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