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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat•com>
Cc: dlaor@redhat•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Dor Laor <dor@redhat•com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat•com>,
	virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 23:53:53 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905122353.54424.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242061838.25337.8.camel@blaa>

On Tue, 12 May 2009 02:40:38 am Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Blocked from doing the simpler thing, we've decided to go with a layer
> > of indirection.  But the patch is simple and clean, so there's nothing
> > fundamental to object to.
>
> Still have one FIXME in the patch worth looking at - at what point
> should we use an indirect entry rather than consuming N entries?

OK, I've applied these as is.  I'm doing some virtio net benchmarking (under 
lguest); I'll see if I can get a reasonable figure.  I don't think there's an 
obvious right answer; it depends how many more packets are coming as well as 
how many descriptors each will use.

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1229620222-22216-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <1229620222-22216-2-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <1229620222-22216-3-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com>
2009-04-21 12:59     ` [PATCH 2/3] virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC) Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-27  7:43       ` Dor Laor
2009-05-04  2:19         ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-11 17:10           ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-11 17:11             ` [PATCH 1/3] virtio: teach virtio_has_feature() about transport features Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-11 17:11               ` [PATCH 2/3] virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC) Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-11 17:11                 ` [PATCH 3/3] lguest: add support for indirect ring entries Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-12 14:23             ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-05-17  2:04             ` [PATCH 2/3] virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC) Rusty Russell
2009-05-17  6:27               ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 14:16                 ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-17 15:05                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-19  8:15                     ` Rusty Russell

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