[pve-devel] [PATCH] add virtio-vhost-user nic support

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Fri May 6 12:42:26 CEST 2016



> On May 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >>I was confused for a minute by this. This modifies the variable outside 
> >>the loop to be used afterwards to decide on the $numa_object. 
> 
> I wonder if it could be better to enable hugepage with a new vm config option.
> It can be used without  vhost_user (some very specific vm workloads can
> benefit from hugepages).
> 
> It could also help with vhost_user nic hotplug.  
> (currently, start a vm without vhost_user, don't enable hugepage, so hotplug a
> vhost_user nic after that, will not work)
> 
> Any opininion ?

Just to be sure, THP does not work? We need to use hugetlbfs? 




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