On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:23:38 am Shirley Ma wrote: > virtio_net receives packets from its pre-allocated vring buffers, then it > delivers these packets to upper layer protocols as skb buffs. So it's not > necessary to pre-allocate skb for each mergable buffer, then frees extra > skbs when buffers are merged into a large packet. This patch has deferred > skb allocation in receiving packets for both big packets and mergeable buffers > to reduce skb pre-allocations and skb frees. It frees unused buffers by calling > detach_unused_buf in vring, so recv skb queue is not needed. > > Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied! After testing I'll send it to DaveM. Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
