Re: [patch net-next] virtio_net: add support for Byte Queue Limits

Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-05-09T14:28:24Z

On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 03:31:56PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Thu, May 09, 2024 at 02:41:39PM CEST, mst@redhat.com wrote:
> >On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 01:46:15PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
> >>
> >> Add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
> >
> >Can we get more detail on the benefits you observe etc?
> >Thanks!
>
> More info about the BQL in general is here:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/469652/

I know about BQL in general. We discussed BQL for virtio in the past
mostly I got the feedback from net core maintainers that it likely won't
benefit virtio.

So I'm asking, what kind of benefit do you observe?

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