Thread (47 messages) 47 messages, 6 authors, 2010-09-29

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] macvtap: TX zero copy between guest and host kernel

From: Shirley Ma <hidden>
Date: 2010-09-14 19:36:30
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On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 21:01 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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I think that you should be able to simply combine
the two drivers together, add an ioctl to
enable/disable zero copy mode of operation. 
That could work. But what's the purpose to have two drivers if one
driver can handle it?

Thanks
Shirley
This was just an idea: I thought it's a good way for people interested
in this zero copy thing to combine forces and avoid making
the same mistakes, but it's not a must of course. 
Ok, I will make a simple patch by reusing Xiaohui's some vhost code on
handling vhost_add_used_and_signal() to see any performance changes.

The interesting thing here when I run 32 instances netperf/netserver I
didn't see any issue w/i this patch.

Thanks
Shirley
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