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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: virtio-net mergable rx buffers
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:01:09 -0400
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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