On Friday 18 April 2008 13:24:27 Herbert Xu wrote: > Finally this patch lets virtio_net receive GSO packets in addition > to sending them. This can definitely be optimised for the non-GSO > case. For comparison the Xen approach stores one page in each skb > and uses subsequent skb's pages to construct an SG skb instead of > preallocating the maximum amount of pages per skb.
Well, this ends up freeing the unused pages immediately which is actually quite nice. We can cache them ourselves if we want, but we'd have to see if the page allocation/free overhead is measurable... Thanks! Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
