I attached the patch which restrict netfront to 256 requests.
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>
> On 10 Apr 2006, at 09:54, Keir Fraser wrote:
>
> >2/6: This is a poor fix. Either we should make the ring size fixed
> >(e.g., 4kB) rather than architectural page-sized, or grants should be
> >dynamically allocated in netfront rather than statically allocated.
> >This was done quite some time ago for blkfront, and would be the
> >preferred (although more difficult) fix here.
>
> Actually, another option that might be easier that dynamic grant
> allocation, but less restrictive that reducing the size of the rings on
> ia64, would be to modify netfront to queue only up to 256 requests
> simultaneously on any ring, regardless of the actual ring size. Then
> you'd only need to allocate 256 grants per ring, as x86, and the bigger
> issue (dynamic allocation of grants) can be fixed later. At that point
> we can lift the restriction of 256 requests per ring without having to
> change the public interface at all (unlike if we'd reduced the
> advertised ring size for ia64).
>
> -- Keir
>
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