Re: Change dev->needed_headroom of virtio_net to make Patch"virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data"work better

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:19:58AM +0000, Zhangjie (HZ) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Patch “virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data” , has a notable
> improvement for TCP packages.
> 
> But UDP packages from virtio_net nic, do not have enough head room. I wonder if
> we can set dev->needed_headroom
> 
> to the size of virtio net header, so as to put the header in. By doing this,
> udp get about 5% improvement in bandwidth.

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
Want to post the patch so people can try it out?

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> Thanks,
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> //Zhang Jie
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