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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Defer skb allocation in virtio_net recv
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:41:30 -0800
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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This patch-set has deferred virtio_net skb allocation in receiving path
for both big packets and mergeable buffers. It reduces skb
pre-allocations and skb frees. This patch-set also add a new API
detach_unused_bufs in virtio. Recv skb queue has been removed in
virtio_net. It is based on previous Rusty and Michaels' review, patch
has split into two:

[PATCH 1/2] virtio: Add detach unused buffer from vring
[PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: Defer skb allocation in receive path

I copied Rusty's comment as [PATCH 1/2] commit message.

This patch is built against Dave's net-next tree.

Thanks
Shirley