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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, will.deacon@arm.com, marc.zyngier@arm.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, asias@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: virtio-net mergable rx buffers
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:01:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5176A235.8020702@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366677147-2150-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

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On 04/22/2013 08:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Support mergable rx buffers for virtio-net. This helps reduce the amount
> of memory the guest kernel has to allocate per rx vq.

One of the benefits of this is that even one virtio-net device with just
one pair of vqs will require much less memory - so you could try booting
smaller guests than before!


Thanks,
Sasha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23  0:32 [PATCH] kvm tools: virtio-net mergable rx buffers Sasha Levin
2013-04-23  9:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-04-23 14:19   ` Asias He
2013-04-23 15:01 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2013-04-23 16:35 ` Eric Northup
2013-04-24  2:51   ` Sasha Levin
2013-04-24  6:51     ` Pekka Enberg
2013-04-24  9:23       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-29  0:44         ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-29  2:36           ` Sasha Levin
2013-04-24  5:32 ` Asias He
2013-04-24  9:35   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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