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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-ring: Use threshold for switching to indirect descriptors
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:14:20 +1030
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:48:17 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 04:02:45PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 20:23 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Rusty, Michael, does the below looks a reasonable optimization for you?
> 
> OK overall but a bit hard to say for sure as it looks pretty incomplete ...

A static threshold is very hackish; we need to either initialize it to
a proven-good value (since noone will ever change it) or be cleverer.

Thanks,
Rusty.