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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] virtio_net: refill buffer right after being used
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:30:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110803203020.GB19501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312089375.23194.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:16:15PM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> It averages the latency between each receive by filling only one set of
> buffers vs. either none buffers or 1/2 ring size buffers fill between
> receives.

I see how the overhead of allocating memory is spread more evenly.  Does this
actually help some workloads?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-29 22:44 [PATCH RFC net-next] virtio_net: refill buffer right after being used Shirley Ma
2011-07-29 22:55 ` Shirley Ma
2011-07-29 23:58   ` Mike Waychison
2011-07-31  5:16     ` Shirley Ma
2011-08-03 20:30       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-08-03 20:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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