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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us•ibm.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•hengli.com.au>,
	davem@davemloft•net, kvm@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: remove send completion interrupts and avoid TX queue overrun through packet drop
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:21:54 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4fnls45.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300988809.3441.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:46:49 -0700, Shirley Ma <mashirle@us•ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 16:28 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Several other things I am looking at, wellcome cooperation:
> > 1. It's probably a good idea to update avail index
> >    immediately instead of upon kick: for RX
> >    this might help parallelism with the host.
> Is that possible to use the same idea for publishing last used idx to
> publish avail idx? Then we can save guest iowrite/exits.

Yes, it should be symmetrical.  Test independently of course, but the
same logic applies.

Thanks!
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-17  0:12 [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: remove send completion interrupts and avoid TX queue overrun through packet drop Shirley Ma
2011-03-17  5:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-17 15:18   ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-18  3:28     ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-18 13:15       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-18 16:54         ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-17  5:10 ` Rusty Russell
2011-03-17 15:10   ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-18 13:33 ` Herbert Xu
2011-03-19  1:41   ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-21 18:03     ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-22 11:36       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-23  2:26         ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-24  0:30           ` Rusty Russell
2011-03-24  4:14             ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-24 14:28             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-24 17:46               ` Shirley Ma
2011-03-24 18:10                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-03-25  4:51                 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2011-03-25  4:50               ` Rusty Russell
2011-03-27  7:52                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-04-04  6:13                   ` Rusty Russell
2011-03-24  0:16         ` Rusty Russell
2011-03-24  6:39           ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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