Hi Matias, > > > I think the test can always send packets at a frequency so the worker > > > queue > > > is always empty. but maybe, this is a corner case and most of the time the > > > worker queue is not empty in a non-testing environment. > > > > I'm not sure about this, but IMHO this optimization is free, there is no > > penalty for using it, in the worst case the system will work as usual. > > In any case, I'm more than happy to do some additional testing, do you have > > anything in mind? > > > Sure!, this is very a interesting improvement and I am in favor for > that! I was only thinking out loud ;)
No worries :) > I asked previous questions > because, in my mind, I was thinking that this improvement would trigger > only for the first bunch of packets, i.e., when the worker queue is > empty so its effect would be seen "only at the beginning of the > transmission" until the worker-queue begins to fill. If I understand > correctly, the worker-queue starts to fill just after the virtqueue is > full, am I right? Correct! Packets are enqueued in the worker-queue only if the virtqueue is full. Luigi
