On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:17 AM Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxx> wrote: > > This series is based on the exceptional generic zerocopy xmit logics > initially introduced by Xuan Zhuo. It extends it the way that it > could cover all the sane drivers, not only the ones that are capable > of xmitting skbs with no linear space. > > The first patch is a random while-we-are-here improvement over > full-copy path, and the second is the main course. See the individual > commit messages for the details. > > The original (full-zerocopy) path is still here and still generally > faster, but for now it seems like virtio_net will remain the only > user of it, at least for a considerable period of time. > > Alexander Lobakin (2): > xsk: speed-up generic full-copy xmit > xsk: introduce generic almost-zerocopy xmit > > net/xdp/xsk.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------- > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > -- > Well, this is untested. I currently don't have an access to my setup > and is bound by moving to another country, but as I don't know for > sure at the moment when I'll get back to work on the kernel next time, > I found it worthy to publish this now -- if any further changes will > be required when I already will be out-of-sight, maybe someone could > carry on to make a another revision and so on (I'm still here for any > questions, comments, reviews and improvements till the end of this > week). > But this *should* work with all the sane drivers. If a particular > one won't handle this, it's likely ill. Thanks Alexander. I will take your patches for a spin on a couple of NICs and get back to you, though it will be next week due to holidays where I am based. > -- > 2.31.1 > >
