Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] macvtap TX zero copy between guest and host kernel

Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-14T12:11:54Z

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> This patch induces a new sock flag ZEROCOPY to avoid copy between
> userspace and kernel. macvtap is the first user of zero copy between
> guest and host kernel. It only uses when the lower device supports high
> memory DMA. The first set of patch only addresses transmission TX side.
> The test has shown big improvement on either CPU utilization reduction
> or BW increase on 10GbE Intel NIC. Performance data will be submitted in
> the coming email.
>
> thanks
> Shirley

While others pointed out correctness issues with the patch,
I would still like to see the performance numbers, just so we
understand what's possible.

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