From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: jes.sorensen@redhat.com, kraxel@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] virtio-net: More configurability and bh handling for tx
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901104025.GC7513@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283293567.5826.147.camel@x201>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:26:07PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:33 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 08/31/2010 03:27 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 04:36:59PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > >
> > >> Add the ability to configure the tx_timer timeout and add a bottom
> > >> half tx handler that typically shows a nice perf boost over the
> > >> time based approach. See last patch for perf details. Make this
> > >> the new default when the iothread is enabled. Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Alex
> > >>
> > > As a further thought, maybe it would help to have a
> > > separate namespace for unsupported, developer-only parameters.
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> >
> > We already have an undocumented one, just prefix with 'x-' to indicate
> > that it's experimental.
>
> Any objection then to x-txburst and x-txtimer then? Easy enough to
> rename. Thanks,
>
> Alex
No objection. Let's put the 256 constant in a header,
with a comment explaining where it came from?
--
MST
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-01 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-27 22:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] virtio-net: More configurability and bh handling for tx Alex Williamson
2010-08-27 22:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Make tx_timer timeout configurable Alex Williamson
2010-08-31 18:00 ` Chris Wright
2010-08-31 18:07 ` Alex Williamson
2010-08-31 19:29 ` Chris Wright
2010-08-27 22:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] virtio-net: Limit number of packets sent per TX flush Alex Williamson
2010-08-31 20:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-27 22:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] virtio-net: Rename tx_timer_active to tx_waiting Alex Williamson
2010-08-27 22:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] virtio-net: Introduce a new bottom half packet TX Alex Williamson
2010-08-31 20:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-31 20:33 ` Alex Williamson
2010-09-01 9:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-27 22:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] virtio-net: Switch default to new bottom half TX handler for iothread Alex Williamson
2010-08-31 20:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-31 22:32 ` Alex Williamson
2010-08-31 22:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-01 6:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-01 8:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-31 20:20 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] virtio-net: More configurability and bh handling for tx Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-31 20:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-31 21:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-31 22:26 ` Alex Williamson
2010-09-01 10:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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