On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:20:03PM -0800, David Stevens wrote:
These patches add support for mergeable receive buffers to
vhost-net, allowing it to use multiple virtio buffer heads for a single
receive packet.
+-DLS
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:54:25AM -0800, David Stevens wrote:
Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com wrote on 03/02/2010 11:54:32 PM:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:20:03PM -0800, David Stevens wrote:
These patches add support for mergeable receive buffers to
vhost-net, allowing it to use
These patches add support for mergeable receive buffers to
vhost-net, allowing it to use multiple virtio buffer heads for a single
receive packet.
+-DLS
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens dlstev...@us.ibm.com
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Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com wrote on 03/02/2010 11:54:32 PM:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:20:03PM -0800, David Stevens wrote:
These patches add support for mergeable receive buffers to
vhost-net, allowing it to use multiple virtio buffer heads for a
single
receive packet.
Interesting. Since the feature in question is billed first of all a
performance optimization...
By whom? Although I see some improved performance, I think its real
benefit is improving memory utilization on the guest. Instead of using
75K for an ARP packet, mergeable RX buffers only uses 4K.
