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From: Dor Laor <dor.laor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [virtio-net][PATCH] Don't arm tx hrtimer with a constant
 500us each transmit
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:17:44 +0200
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To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 schrieb Dor Laor:
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -406,10 +405,10 @@ again:
>
> Hmm, while I agree in general with the patch, I fail to find the proper
> version of virtio_net where this patch applies. I tried kvm.git and
> linux-2.6.git from kernel.org. Can you give me a pointer to the repository
> where you work on virtio?
>
Sorry for that, I added some debug prints of my one.
Here it is: *git clone 
git*://kvm.*qumranet*.com/home/*dor*/src/linux-2.6-nv use branch 'virtio'.
BTW: what git repository do you use?

This patch improves my tx performance from 720Mbps to 900Mbps.
Dor
>
> Christian
>