On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:36 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index cc2f73e..6106017 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -185,11 +185,6 @@ int virtqueue_add_buf_gfp(struct virtqueue *_vq,
> if (vq->num_free < out + in) {
> pr_debug("Can't add buf len %i - avail = %i\n",
> out + in, vq->num_free);
> - /* FIXME: for historical reasons, we force a notify
> here if
> - * there are outgoing parts to the buffer. Presumably
> the
> - * host should service the ring ASAP. */
> - if (out)
> - vq->notify(&vq->vq);
> END_USE(vq);
> return -ENOSPC;
> }
>
With simply removing the notify here, it does help the case when TX
overrun hits too often, for example for 1K message size, the single
TCP_STREAM performance improved from 2.xGb/s to 4.xGb/s.
Thanks
Shirley
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