Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue

2010-02-12 Thread David Miller
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:14:42 -0800 Now we have a virtio detach API (in commit f9bfbebf34eab707b065116cdc9699d25ba4252a), we don't need to track xmit skbs in the virio_net driver, which improves transmission performance. Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma

Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue

2010-02-10 Thread Shirley Ma
netperf results showed about 20% transmission gain with this patch for virtio_net. Thanks Shirley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue

2010-02-08 Thread Shirley Ma
Now we have a virtio detach API (in commit f9bfbebf34eab707b065116cdc9699d25ba4252a), we don't need to track xmit skbs in the virio_net driver, which improves transmission performance. Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma x...@us.ibm.com Acked-by: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au Acked-by: Michael S.

Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue

2010-02-07 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:18:51 am Shirley Ma wrote: Use detach buffers API in virtio to free unused buffers in send queue when shutting down virtio_net to avoid maintaining skb link list for each transmit packet. Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma x...@us.ibm.com Hi Shirley, Nice cleanup. Please

Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue

2010-02-03 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:48:51PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote: Use detach buffers API in virtio to free unused buffers in send queue when shutting down virtio_net to avoid maintaining skb link list for each transmit packet. Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma x...@us.ibm.com Acked-by: Michael S.