From patchwork Wed Feb 3 13:57:15 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 577992 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98221140C43; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 00:58:59 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxxP-0004sH-P1; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:58:55 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxvq-0003t4-Ja for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:57:18 +0000 Received: from av-217-129-142-138.netvisao.pt ([217.129.142.138] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxvo-0004w3-Od; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:57:16 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Wei Liu Subject: [3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 13:57:15 +0000 Message-Id: <1454507835-26709-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.16 Cc: Ian Campbell , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, David Vrabel , Johnny Strom , "David S . Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 2ce7c9bd5b91ee8d4b8bb1e7a3a066034744c8b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Liu Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:18:57 +0100 Subject: xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues commit 4c82ac3c37363e8c4ded6a5fe1ec5fa756b34df3 upstream. Originally that parameter was always reset to num_online_cpus during module initialisation, which renders it useless. The fix is to only set max_queues to num_online_cpus when user has not provided a value. Reported-by: Johnny Strom Signed-off-by: Wei Liu Reviewed-by: David Vrabel Acked-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c index 0c1574212162..4a35be8e397c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c @@ -2008,8 +2008,11 @@ static int __init netback_init(void) if (!xen_domain()) return -ENODEV; - /* Allow as many queues as there are CPUs, by default */ - xenvif_max_queues = num_online_cpus(); + /* Allow as many queues as there are CPUs if user has not + * specified a value. + */ + if (xenvif_max_queues == 0) + xenvif_max_queues = num_online_cpus(); if (fatal_skb_slots < XEN_NETBK_LEGACY_SLOTS_MAX) { pr_info("fatal_skb_slots too small (%d), bump it to XEN_NETBK_LEGACY_SLOTS_MAX (%d)\n",