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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mwdalton@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, edumazet@google.com,
	bhutchings@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 0/6] virtio-net: mergeable rx buffer size auto-tuning
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:51:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140116.235120.414403159336172289.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389939810-14998-1-git-send-email-mwdalton@google.com>

From: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:23:24 -0800

> The virtio-net device currently uses aligned MTU-sized mergeable receive
> packet buffers. Network throughput for workloads with large average
> packet size can be improved by posting larger receive packet buffers.
> However, due to SKB truesize effects, posting large (e.g, PAGE_SIZE)
> buffers reduces the throughput of workloads that do not benefit from GRO
> and have no large inbound packets.
> 
> This patchset introduces virtio-net mergeable buffer size auto-tuning,
> with buffer sizes ranging from aligned MTU-size to PAGE_SIZE. Packet
> buffer size is chosen based on a per-receive queue EWMA of incoming
> packet size.
> 
> To unify mergeable receive buffer memory allocation and improve
> SKB frag coalescing, all mergeable buffer memory allocation is
> migrated to per-receive queue page frag allocators.
> 
> The per-receive queue mergeable packet buffer size is exported via
> sysfs, and the network device sysfs layer has been extended to add
> support for device-specific per-receive queue sysfs attribute groups.

Series applied, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-17  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-17  6:23 [PATCH net-next v6 0/6] virtio-net: mergeable rx buffer size auto-tuning Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  6:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/6] net: allow > 0 order atomic page alloc in skb_page_frag_refill Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  6:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/6] virtio-net: use per-receive queue page frag alloc for mergeable bufs Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  6:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/6] virtio-net: auto-tune mergeable rx buffer size for improved performance Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  6:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/6] net-sysfs: add support for device-specific rx queue sysfs attributes Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  6:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 5/6] lib: Ensure EWMA does not store wrong intermediate values Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  6:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 6/6] virtio-net: initial rx sysfs support, export mergeable rx buffer size Michael Dalton
2014-01-17  7:51 ` David Miller [this message]

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