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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>,
	mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: rx busy polling support
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:44:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C5E71E.7050706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405419703.10255.26.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 07/15/2014 06:21 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 17:41 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> Add basic support for rx busy polling.
>>
>> 1 byte netperf tcp_rr on mlx4 shows 116% improvement: the transaction
>> rate was increased from 9151.94 to 19787.37.
> This is a misleading changelog.
>
> You forgot to describe how you allowed busy polling, as it is not
> 'automatic'
>
> If not, this patch adds two spinlock/unlock pairs in fast path.

Ok.
> Also, it looks like you could split this in smaller patches.
>
> virtnet_napi_disable_all() & virtnet_napi_enable_all() could be added in
> a separate patch for example.

Sure, will split this patch into smaller ones in V2.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-16  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15  9:41 [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: rx busy polling support Jason Wang
2014-07-15 10:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-07-16  2:44   ` Jason Wang [this message]
2014-07-15 11:46 ` Rusty Russell

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