Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] virtio_net: refill buffer right after being used

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:30:20 +0300

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:16:15PM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> It averages the latency between each receive by filling only one set of
> buffers vs. either none buffers or 1/2 ring size buffers fill between
> receives.

I see how the overhead of allocating memory is spread more evenly.  Does this
actually help some workloads?