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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, edumazet@google•com,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	mst@redhat•com, mwdalton@google•com,
	virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] virtio-net: coalesce rx frags when possible during rx
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:43:46 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iowcc1id.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383215313-23651-2-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>

Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com> writes:
> Commit 2613af0ed18a11d5c566a81f9a6510b73180660a (virtio_net: migrate mergeable
> rx buffers to page frag allocators) try to increase the payload/truesize for
> MTU-sized traffic. But this will introduce the extra overhead for GSO packets
> received because of the frag list. This commit tries to reduce this issue by
> coalesce the possible rx frags when possible during rx. Test result shows the
> about 15% improvement on full size GSO packet receiving (and even better than
> commit 2613af0ed18a11d5c566a81f9a6510b73180660a).

I don't know about the other users of skb_add_rx_frag, but should
this coalesce-if-possible code be built into that?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-01  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-31 10:28 [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: introduce skb_coalesce_rx_frag() Jason Wang
2013-10-31 10:28 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] virtio-net: coalesce rx frags when possible during rx Jason Wang
2013-10-31 11:41   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-01  2:13   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-11-01  5:37     ` Jason Wang
2013-10-31 11:05 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: introduce skb_coalesce_rx_frag() Kmindg G
2013-10-31 11:34   ` Jason Wang
2013-10-31 11:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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