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* Re: Change dev->needed_headroom of virtio_net to make Patch"virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data"work better
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@ 2014-04-24 11:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
  2014-04-24 11:50   ` Zhangjie (HZ)
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin @ 2014-04-24 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Zhangjie (HZ)
  Cc: jasowang@redhat.com, Qinchuanyu, Liuyongan, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:19:58AM +0000, Zhangjie (HZ) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Patch “virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data” , has a notable
> improvement for TCP packages.
> 
> But UDP packages from virtio_net nic, do not have enough head room. I wonder if
> we can set dev->needed_headroom
> 
> to the size of virtio net header, so as to put the header in. By doing this,
> udp get about 5% improvement in bandwidth.

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
Want to post the patch so people can try it out?

>  
> 
> --
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> //Zhang Jie
> 
>  
> 

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* RE: Change dev->needed_headroom of virtio_net to make Patch"virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data"work better
  2014-04-24 11:44 ` Change dev->needed_headroom of virtio_net to make Patch"virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data"work better Michael S. Tsirkin
@ 2014-04-24 11:50   ` Zhangjie (HZ)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Zhangjie (HZ) @ 2014-04-24 11:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael S. Tsirkin
  Cc: jasowang@redhat.com, Qinchuanyu, Liuyongan, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org

Thank you very much!
I will post a patch tomorrow.

--Best wishes!
//Zhang Jie
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:45 PM
To: Zhangjie (HZ)
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com; Qinchuanyu; Liuyongan; kvm@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change dev->needed_headroom of virtio_net to make Patch"virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data"work better

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:19:58AM +0000, Zhangjie (HZ) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Patch “virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data” , has a 
> notable improvement for TCP packages.
> 
> But UDP packages from virtio_net nic, do not have enough head room. I 
> wonder if we can set dev->needed_headroom
> 
> to the size of virtio net header, so as to put the header in. By doing 
> this, udp get about 5% improvement in bandwidth.

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
Want to post the patch so people can try it out?

>  
> 
> --
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> //Zhang Jie
> 
>  
> 

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