Anthony Liguori writes:
> Rusty Russell writes:
>
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
>>
>> There's a reason I haven't done this. I really, really dislike "my
>> implemention isn't broken" feature bits. We could have an infinite
>> number of them, for each bug in each device.
>>
>> So my plan was
Rusty Russell writes:
> Anthony Liguori writes:
>> Rusty Russell writes:
>>
>>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
>>>
Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage
for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put
virtio net header inline with the data.
This can be
Anthony Liguori writes:
> Rusty Russell writes:
>
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
>>
>>> Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage
>>> for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put
>>> virtio net header inline with the data.
>>> This can be done for free in case guest net st
Rusty Russell writes:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
>
> There's a reason I haven't done this. I really, really dislike "my
> implemention isn't broken" feature bits. We could have an infinite
> number of them, for each bug in each device.
>
> So my plan was to tie this assumption to the new P
Rusty Russell writes:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
>
>> Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage
>> for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put
>> virtio net header inline with the data.
>> This can be done for free in case guest net stack allocated
>> extra head room f
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> Il 03/10/2012 08:44, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
>> There's a reason I haven't done this. I really, really dislike "my
>> implemention isn't broken" feature bits. We could have an infinite
>> number of them, for each bug in each device.
>
> However, this bug affects (almos
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
> Capacity math on ring full is wrong: we are
> looking at num_sg but that might be optimistic
> because of indirect buffer use.
>
> The implementation also penalizes fast path
> with extra memory accesses for the benefit of
> ring full condition handling which is slow
Rusty Russell writes:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
>
>> Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage
>> for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put
>> virtio net header inline with the data.
>> This can be done for free in case guest net stack allocated
>> extra head room f
Il 03/10/2012 08:44, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
> There's a reason I haven't done this. I really, really dislike "my
> implemention isn't broken" feature bits. We could have an infinite
> number of them, for each bug in each device.
However, this bug affects (almost) all implementations and (almo
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes:
> Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage
> for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put
> virtio net header inline with the data.
> This can be done for free in case guest net stack allocated
> extra head room for the packet, and I don't see
>
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