From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers and big packets in virtio_net
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:40:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091125114029.GA9333@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911252050.21907.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:50:21PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:45:30 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Hmm, is it really worth it to save a header copy if it's linear? We are
> > going to access it anyway, and it fits into one cacheline nicely. On
> > the other hand we have more code making life harder for compiler and
> > processor.
>
> Not sure: I think there would be many places where it would be useful.
>
> We do a similar thing in the kernel to inspect non-linear packets, and
> it's served us well.
You mean this gives measureable speedup? Okay ...
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-20 6:15 [PATCH 1/1] Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers and big packets in virtio_net Shirley Ma
2009-11-20 6:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-20 16:08 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-20 16:21 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-23 1:08 ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-23 16:07 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-23 22:24 ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-23 23:27 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-24 11:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-24 14:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-24 16:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-24 16:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-25 0:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-25 0:12 ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-25 9:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-25 10:20 ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-25 11:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-11-23 19:01 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-23 9:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-23 16:18 ` Shirley Ma
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