From: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:50:04 +1030

> From: Shirley Ma <[email protected]>
> 
> virtio_net receives packets from its pre-allocated vring buffers, then it 
> delivers these packets to upper layer protocols as skb buffs. So it's not
> necessary to pre-allocate skb for each mergable buffer, then frees extra 
> skbs when buffers are merged into a large packet. This patch has deferred 
> skb allocation in receiving packets for both big packets and mergeable buffers
> to reduce skb pre-allocations and skb frees. It frees unused buffers by 
> calling 
> detach_unused_buf in vring, so recv skb queue is not needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>

Applied.
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