Hello all:
We free old transmitted packets in ndo_start_xmit() currently, so any
packet must be orphaned also there. This was used to reduce the overhead of
tx interrupt to achieve better performance. But this may not work for some
protocols such as TCP stream. TCP depends on the value of
This patches let vhost-net support urgent descriptors. For zerocopy case,
two new types of length was introduced to make it work.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com
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drivers/vhost/net.c | 43
Below should be useful for some experiments Jason is doing.
I thought I'd send it out for early review/feedback.
event idx feature allows us to defer interrupts until
a specific # of descriptors were used.
Sometimes it might be useful to get an interrupt after
a specific descriptor, regardless.
We free transmitted packets in ndo_start_xmit() in the past to get better
performance in the past. One side effect is that skb_orphan() needs to be
called in ndo_start_xmit() which makes sk_wmem_alloc not accurate in
fact. For TCP protocol, this means several optimization could not work well
such
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 15:16 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
We free transmitted packets in ndo_start_xmit() in the past to get better
performance in the past. One side effect is that skb_orphan() needs to be
called in ndo_start_xmit() which makes sk_wmem_alloc not accurate in
fact. For TCP protocol,
