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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio-ring: Allocate indirect buffers from cache
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On 09/12/2012 08:13 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> The real question is now whether we'd want a separate indirect cache for
> the 3 case (so num above should be a bitmap?), or reuse the same one, or
> not use it at all?
> 
> Benchmarking will tell...

Since there are no specific decisions about actual values, I'll just modify the
code to use cache per-vq instead of per-device.


Thanks,
Sasha